{"id":376,"date":"2014-04-07T03:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2014-04-08T19:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:28:53","slug":"is-siri-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/english\/2014\/04\/07\/is-siri-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Siri Racist?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a <a href=\"http:\/\/geocaching.com\" target=\"_blank\">geocaching<\/a> event today, and there was a 6~7 year old Irish boy with a strong Dublin accent playing with Siri on an iPhone. He was making friends with me and came to me asking me to ask Siri to sing a song or tell a joke. I obeyed by asking her to &#8220;sing a song.&#8221; She said she can&#8217;t! Then I asked her to &#8220;tell me a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is what I got:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" alt=\"20140406-232326.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140406-232326.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that this was not what he was expecting based on his previous commands and the responses that he&#8217;d got until he pointed out very politely &amp; cutely: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s because your accent is different.&#8221; He wasn&#8217;t impressed by Siri&#8217;s response to me, so he tried it himself once again: &#8220;[Siri!] Tell me a joke.&#8221; (Again with all those strong Irish\/Dublin vowels!)<\/p>\n<p>This was what Siri told him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" alt=\"20140406-232403.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140406-232403.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is NOT a random answer by Siri. Every time I&#8217;ve tried saying this so far, I get the very first response, while \u00a0the Irish people around (or me if I imitate a very pure \/d\u0292<strong>\u0259\u028a<\/strong>k\/) get the latter response.<\/p>\n<p>Is Apple being really racist, judging people by their accents and showing them different results based on that?<\/p>\n<p>I might try making a video for this later!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" alt=\"20140408-154305.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140408-1543051.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a geocaching event today, and there was a 6~7 year old Irish boy with a strong Dublin accent playing with Siri on an iPhone. He was making friends with me and came to me asking me to ask Siri to sing a song or tell a joke. I obeyed by asking her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,3],"tags":[152,151,153,146,149,150,148,147],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-english","tag-accent","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-odd","tag-racism","tag-racist","tag-siri","tag-weird","et-bg-layout-dark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamekhi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}