Siri glitch causes Siri to define "Mother" inappropriately

[AlTech]

Bugs and glitches in Siri have caused it to define the word "Mother" inappropriately.

 

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On Saturday, iPhone users around the world began testing and confirming what is arguably Siri's most bizarre response to a question yet. Before grabbing your own phone to test this out, however, be mindful of anybody else around.

The randy robo-response was apparently first reported on Reddit's Apple community, where a user by the name "thatwasabaddecision" suggested that people ask Siri to "define the word mother," wait for the assistant to ask for an additional definition, and say "yes." What the Reddit user didn't point out, which readers learned by doing the test themselves, was that the second definition Siri offers is succinct and seemingly inaccurate.

 

This was discovered when a user on reddit suggested people try asking siri to define the word "Surprising" and Siri proceeded by asking the user to ask it to define "Mother" twice.

 

The user asked Siri to define "Mother".

 

Siri then proceeded to define "Mother".......

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"As a noun, it means, short for 'motherfucker.'"

 

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Apple's Siri voice navigation service has been criticized for various content issues over the years, including lackluster language support and emergency comprehension. In terms of robo-voice services going weirdly awry, on the other hand, the only recent example we have is when when Amazon's line of Echo products began creepily laughing for no reason. Surprising and inappropriate content has frequently been discovered inside games' and apps' code by clever users, of course, particularly the "Hot Coffee" mod that shipped in original versions of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

 

So yeah. Definitely not what I was expecting to be making a post about . As sad as it is, I found this actually quite hilarious.

Of course, be sure to post what you think below.

 

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/iphones-weirdest-glitch-yet-ask-siri-to-define-mother-twice-learn-a-bad-word/

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Apple...

[Starelementpoke]

I mean, the definition isn't wrong .

[mynameisjuan]

Now that is the assistant I want!!! I think a 18+ option would be hilarious.

[themctipers]

someone show a screenshot I need 

[Xander Cousins]

I think this is Apples response to people being annoyed about the IPhone 8 bricking shenanigans. Mothers day coming up and apple just wanted everyone to know what they said when the had to fix the 'problem'  

 

tbh personal assistants never fail to amaze me. 

[suicidalfranco]

4 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Now that is the assistant I want!!! I think a 18+ option would be hilarious.

the one I want is this one:

would lighten up my days every day 365/year

 

[Guest The Viking]

...... then apple people say siri is good/worth it... yeah...

 

oh boy

[suicidalfranco]

Just now, The Viking said:

...... then apple people say siri is good/worth it... yeah...

 

oh boy

it's not about worth, it's about the ecosystem

[Taf the Ghost]

Knew what was coming when I clicked on this topic, still laughed.

[DildorTheDecent]

9 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

it's not about worth, it's about the ecosystem

kek

[Ryujin2003]

34 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Now that is the assistant I want!!! I think a 18+ option would be hilarious.

Siri: 2018 NSFW Edition

[NinJake]

Tbh if I could get siri to respond to me with vulgarities every time I asked a question I'd move over to Apple.

 

Siri, what's 2+2?

"It's 4 dumbass!"

[Silentprototipe]

Is this the NSFW DLC to Siri?  

[Ryujin2003]

49 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Bugs and glitches in Siri have caused it to define the word "Mother" inappropriately.

And, I think this is more of a feature than a bug.

 

 

Does anyone know where Siri actually pulls her dictionary terms from?  I mean, even Websters has this definition:

 

 

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Definition of mother

1 a : a female parent

• She's the mother of three small children.

b (1) : a woman in authority; specifically : the superior of a religious community of women

• Mother Theresa

(2) : an old or elderly woman

• Mother Hubbard

2 : source, origin

• necessity is the mother of invention

3 : maternal tenderness or affection

• all my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears
• —William Shakespeare

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[short for motherfucker]

sometimes vulgar : motherfucker

 

5 : something that is an extreme or ultimate example of its kind especially in terms of scale

• the mother of all construction projects

• the mother of all ocean liners

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother

[Guest The Viking]

5 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Does anyone know where Siri actually pulls her dictionary terms from? 

i want to say out of its you-know-what, but is that too vulgar?

[Dylanc1500]

17 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

it's not a bad word if you're describing a donkey!

So pulling it out of an ass' ass?

[DoctorWho1975]

So Danzig didn't write "Mother", they wrote "Motherfucker" instead?

[Tieox]

That is all.

[mr moose]

You can't blame technology for analyzing the only data it has to analyze.  Unless you find someway to give the technology a moral compass it will nearly always look for the most common usage of any word.   I bet siri doesn't recognize tit as a bird either.   

[Techstorm970]

Cool!  Now Google Blyat has a competitor in Siri Motherfucker!  

 

[Misanthrope]

Did she tell her children not to walk his way, not to hear his words, what they mean, what they say?

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Clanscorpia]

I just checked it and it didnt happen for me

 

[Trik'Stari]

Mother.....

[Notional]

Wouldn't that technically be the definition of a father?