Archive for December 2nd, 2011
Why this NPR article on Siri and Abortion = FAIL
[I'm so ready to NEVER again write about Siri and abortion]
Siri’s Position On Abortion? A Glitch, Not Conspiracy, Apple Says
by Julie Rovner
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re out to get you.
Feminists are paranoid nitpickers, amirite? Sigh.
That could be the motto this week for abortion rights groups that immediately sprang into battle mode when it was discovered that Siri, Apple’s new artificially intelligent personal assistant, wasn’t so, well, intelligent when it came to abortion.
And feminists as militant. Yay! Because women can’t possibly draw attention to systemic failures in a major piece of technology without “springing into battle mode.” (But, of course, me even writing this post tonight is just simply evidence of me being in battle mode, I guess)
It turns out, however, that it was all much ado about not so much.
