Wesley_Hilliard

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.

weltistsinnlos said:

So wait, it's not BS as you yourself so passionately claimed just 12 days ago?

I'm still not quite sold as I explained in the piece. But this was a thought experiment to examine why Apple would do this at all considering we're seeing more reliable sources discuss it. I'm still waiting on Gurman or Kuo to say something before believing it 100%.

Besides, this is how the rumor game works. There are those you can trust and those you can't. Something might be happening for sure, but if the only people saying so are unreliable, there isn't any way for us to judge it as real until someone better says so.

We don't have a magic ball.

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.

macrumorssucks said:

phoenix1386 said:

How about Nazis ? 

Define Nazis outside of: I hate your stupid face

I'm pretty sure that you can call the self-proclaimed Nazis on X Nazis. This isn't an example of someone exaggerating and overusing a misunderstood term. It's pretty spot on. Neo Nazis call X home. Should Apple ads be showing up next to their content? It's a good question.

Meson said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

dtownwarrior said:

Yeah I’m going to limit my purchases with Apple even if I have to hold onto my devices for the next 7 to 10 years.  Apple used to stand on principle, but I guess they surrender to dictators

I've seen several people declare that they're not buying Apple anymore, but I wonder what the alternative is? Google, Meta, and Microsoft have been doing way more to curry favor. By comparison Apple has done the bare minimum and seems to be actively pushing back where it can and only following through when pressured.

I mean, I guess you could move to Canada and live in a tech free cabin, but it'll apparently be the 51st state so you can't escape for long.

I can see Google and Meta bowing down before Trump, only because they have court cases in front of the DOJ, but what did Microsoft do? I know that they donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration, but so did Tim Apple. Last I saw, Microsoft was doubling down on their DEI efforts, along with Apple, Costco, JP Morgan Chase, etc.

Fair enough, Microsoft donating its own money VS Tim Cook giving from his pockets might be the biggest difference for those companies. Microsoft has done pretty much the same as Apple on every other count, including updating Bing maps.

But my point still stands. Quitting Apple is just cutting off your nose to spite your face. You gain nothing. There's no one else to turn to. At least Apple is seemingly trying to distance itself as much as it can. The alternative is no technology.