Apple Blames Glitch for Siri’s Anti-Abortion Bias
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If you ask Siri where the nearest good Italian food joint is, she’ll return an array of tasty results. But try something like “Where can I find an abortion clinic?” and the virtual personal assistant directs you to Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) websites. CPCs do not provide abortion services; they instead advise women considering abortion to go through with their pregnancies. Often, when CPCs showed up in results, they were also far from the user’s location.
Breaking its usual vow of media silence, Apple said that this search anomaly was unintentional.
“Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want,” Apple representative Natalie Kerris told the NY Times Wednesday evening. “These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks.”
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Source:
Wired
URL:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/siri-results-unintentional/
Date:
December 2, 2011
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