Apple Fix Homophobic Russian Siri ‘Bug’
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| wired.com |
Disturbingly in the case of the Russian iteration of the Q/A
iPhone hub, that nativity comes laced with a disturbing undercurrent of
anti-gay prejudice. The below video shows Alex, a Russian speaker living in
London, demonstrating how Siri responds to homosexually-themed questions.
Unpleasantly, as it turns out, Siri responded by treating any reference to
gayness as if it was foul language. For example, Alex asks Siri about
registering for gay marriage, to which the response is “I will pretend I haven’t
heard it.”
Since then a few other reports, most notably from BBC
Russia, have turned out the same result. This isn’t to suggest that homophobia
is just a part of Russia’s endemic culture, but there is a strong anti-LGBT
sentiment there and it’s pretty far-reaching, so it’s not beyond the realms of possibility
that the Russian language programming might have tagged ‘gay’ as swear-word, or
some such.
Callum Davies
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