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pjohnt said:

The premise of this story makes no sense. People were saying a specific word but Siri instead thought they meant a specific person in that context. Do you hear yourselves?

Nothing to do with Siri. Nothing to do with specific people. It's just an algorithm with know knowledge or understanding of what it's doing misunderstanding inputs. This happens with a lot of words actually.

Use dictation for a few minutes and you'll see a lot of words show up you didn't even come close to saying, but as it figured out context, it swaps it for a different word. These events are usually underlined by a blue line.

This one just happened to be a weird politically charged mistake. Kind of like when Google's image algorithms labeled black people as gorillas. That wasn't intentional, but likely a result of a non diverse team training an algorithm and not thinking of how it would affect Black people.

This one though is odd. It only started recently. If I had to put a finger on it then it would have to be the whole anti DEI thing in recent weeks. People are saying being anti DEI is being racist. So people have been calling Trump racist much more in a short span of time, and now phonetic similarities and similar context clues make the algorithm confused when trying to decide if the person said racist or Trump.

It's the same problem with the Palestinian flag emoji showing up when people write Jerusalem. The algorithm made the association innocently not knowing the political turmoil involved.

But of course, people love their conspiracies.

sdw2001 said:

baconstang said:

Shhhh.... Don't tell the Dotard.  He thinks he just pulled off an amazing deal....

Yeah, the dotard who conducted the greatest comeback in political history---despite the full force of the US government, media and majority of leftist global powers against him.  I understand why leftists don't like Trump, disagree with him or even hate him.  But I'll never understand how they think he's stupid.  

I mean, I've seen him speak words out loud and that's all I needed. The only reason anything is getting done, good or bad, is because they literally wrote it down in a manual and planned it out before he was elected. We're about 33% of the way through Project 2025 so far. You know, that thing he said he wasn't doing and didn't read.

tobian said:

In my honest opinion, Musk is not sharing “anti-LGBT” content, rather anti-LGBT propagating content. And that’s the difference.. intelligent LGBT people wouldn’t be offended, as they feel naturally self confident.

No, there's no confusion here. He straight up hates on gay, trans, or non white people openly, constantly. He tweets every 8 minutes or so and 9 out of 10 are hateful diatribes against the LGBT community or conspiracy theories about white people being replaced.

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beowulfschmidt said:

Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.

By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 

Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?

Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 

your quickly-googled Wikipedia version of what fascism is is wrong. It’s obviously written by a leftist and is nowhere near the actual definition. See merriam Webster.  

A company that has consistently for decades pushed itself to build the best products and services ices in the world, who’s even altered course when it became apparent that things weren’t quite fair (see Taylor swift royalty letter), who’s taken its footprint seriously and fought like no other to be environmentally responsible, human rights centered, and stayed at the top in spite of heavy competition from the worlds big guns, interference from not only world governments, but even its own, and come out in top, while maintaining integrity and legality along the way, when the goalposts move, it’s time to recognize it’s the hand that moved the goalpost is at fault. Not the kicker who placed the ball perfectly. I’m rooting for apple.

Sorry, again, deleting the original comment because you've gone out of your way to incite anger via false claims. But the rest was good and can be seen in the quoted post. And for everyone's consideration, I've pasted the Merriam Webster definition of fascism at the bottom. While there can be a left or right extreme that rules with a fascist government, they have historically been right extreme, which is why there is an association.

often Fascism  : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

A leader that places his rule above law, avoiding all government oversight, regimenting severe economic control over its citizens, and heavily regulating social standards via their rule of law? Seeking to punish all that oppose their world view? Sounds familiar actually. Saw a lot of this on the news today.

Note my edit of the quoted post. That would be allowed here. The parts I trimmed out, no, not so much. They presented debunked conspiracies as fact. We're not going to house such things here.

It still works here. It may be a slow database rollout that hasn't hit every user.