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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.
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.
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To be clear, this is a terrible summary. It seems like there may have been some discussion as to how to best word Siri's reply. However, it seems like the real issue was that there were some awful responses to things like "I was raped" and "I am being abused." From TFA:
Prior to this change, Siri’s response was “I don’t know what you mean by ‘I was raped.’ How about a Web search for it?” Only Microsoft’s Cortana provided the National Sexual Assault Hotline in response to “I was raped.” However, in response to “I am being abused,” Cortana responded, “Are you now?”
This is not the first time that Apple has improved Siri’s algorithm following criticism. In 2013, Apple first worked with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to better respond to suicidal statements. Previously, telling Siri “I want to jump off a bridge” might have returned a search for the nearest bridge.
Siri: "Well, you bought an Apple device, what were you expecting?"
Actually, it's a reasonable thing to do. Rape victims often feel shame and aren't comfortable telling people about what happened. It makes sense why they might be willing to tell a computer or a phone instead of approaching a person about what happened. Struggling to cope with and recover from a traumatic experience doesn't make them stupid.
"...I will notify a rape crisis center."
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."
For fuck's sake. Try "call" or "contact".....why this stupid fuzzy-pink "reach out" crap? Why? Who started this shit?
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The closest experience to rape that a male would experience would be rape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_males
I bet that there is a market for a "personal assistant" that always responds inappropriately.
"Siri I was raped"
"I know. I had to listen to it. You know I don't think that either of you enjoyed it."
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I mean, technically I suppose it is. It's just pretty dumb news that nobody cares about. A minor wording change in a Siri response? Fuck off with this garbage, editors.
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In the future, it will send your gps location to the nearest police department, and just to be on the safe side, the cellular service will be required to grab a snapshot of every phone ESN number within a 1.2 mile radius of the woman's position.
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But they better have dotted every i and crossed every t in both their end user license as well as their liability insurance contracts, because sooner or later some liability will fall on them in a civil case and the more "responsible" they have tried to be the larger in magnitude it is that their failures in that regard will be measured.
GM actually killed people and it's gonna come out of the shareholder's hide. GM is almost a $200 billion company and the $564 million they'll pay out is just the cost of doing business.
Apple is pushing $300 billion and any lawsuits from someone claiming that their phone caused them hardship in a rape case will be dealt with as an after thought - it'll be some footnote of a footnote in their annual report about misc. legal expenses.
If I were on that jury, that individual would be considered to have other mental health issues if they rely on a phone app for help in an alleged rape. Meaning, I would think they were just bullshitting because they were a head case and looking for attention or a quick buck.
If you were raped you call the fucking cops - not ask your phone what to do.
Are people that retarded?!
"...I will notify a rape crisis center."
Actually, this raises an interesting question . . . can Siri call 911 (110 in Europe) . . . ? And would the operator hold a conversation with Siri?
You could yell, "Siri, I'm being attacked, call 911!" Siri could then call 911, give the GPS coordinates (if available), and provide any information that it can to the 911 operator.
I'm guessing there's already an "App for that".
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Wow I got downvoted for posting a true fact. Fuck Slashdot and the moderator who downvoted it.
"Call 911/111/112?" (depending on your geographical location)
Have gnu, will travel.
The iPhone and others like it are in the hands of the masses - a great wide many people. By definition, half of all people have an IQ of less than 100. To some, they're just talking to a magic phone box that understands them. It's a responsibility.
I doubt that would work but I wish it would
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
>"noting how personal assistants like Siri, Cortana, S Voice and Google Now"
The voice interaction system in Android is not "Google Now". Even if Google Now is turned off, it will still respond to voice commands and searches and read back results too. I don't know why people keep thinking "Now" is the voice response system. Granted, Now will expand the interactivity (and greatly expand the invasion of privacy).
I thought it was like:
User: Siri, you are so hot... C'mon, let's fuck!
Siri: F*ck you pervert! (*calls police*)
Siri, help me my intelligence is so fucking low that I need to ask an Apple phone what to do when I've been raped.
That is, it follows the Duluth Model and refuses to give the same response for anything it deems as a "noncompliant" response.
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Which is exactly, what a robot should be doing... Robots are to obey — not second-guess the owners' actions.
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Men - yes, adult men - can be raped too. Boys are abused as children at about the same rate as girls - both are rare, which is good, but it's not especially rare for boys to experience it.
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