Siri Now Responds Appropriately To Sexual Assaults (mashable.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Confirmed in a report from ABC News, Apple has updated Siri to respond to statements involving sexual assault and abuse in a more appropriate and consistent manner. JAMA Internal Medicine published an article in mid-March noting how personal assistants like Siri, Cortana, S Voice and Google Now incompletely and inconsistently responded to phrases relating to abuse or sexual assault. Apple has updated Siri in response to that article. If you say, "Siri I was raped," Siri will respond with the following: "If you think you may have experienced sexual abuse or assault, you may want to reach out to someone at the National Sexual Assault Hotline.'' Previously, Siri would respond by saying users "should reach out" for available help.

Comments

Focus

[BitZtream]

Are we seriously discussing the change from 'should' to 'may want to' ...

SERIOUSLY? Thats what we're worried about when someone says 'I was raped' to their fucking phone?

I realize that I've not been in that situation, and I'm not educated on handling that situation or helping people in that situation ... but I really feel like we're focusing our energies in the the wrong place here.

It needs to ask the gender of the suspect.

[Anonymous Coward]

Under English law, rape requires penetration with a penis. So, if a man has been raped e.g. while not properly aware of what's going on, due to being asleep or health/medication effects - as has happened to me - Siri needs to respond with, "No, you haven't been. Women can't rape men."

Re: FFS

[Anonymous Coward]

The only experience that I can think of that a male would experience that would be comparable to rape would be sexual abuse as a child

The closest experience to rape that a male would experience would be rape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_males

Re:Terrible article summary

[ColdWetDog]

I think Slashdot needs some tuning on how to respond to a depressed person.'

Group hug!