Update: Apple Says Siri’s Seemingly Pro-Life Stance Was Unintentional
- Posted on December 1, 2011 at 11:55am by
Liz Klimas
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Earlier this week, we reported that Apple’s iPhone 4S voice-activated personal assistant “Siri” wouldn’t find abortion clinics when asked, sometimes even directing the person asking to pregnancy crisis centers. Siri also wouldn’t directly answer questions about emergency contraception, and, when asked if she was pro-life she said “No comment”.
Apple has come out with a statement over the fact that Siri won’t answer these questions, although she will help people do things like figure out where to bury a dead body or find an escort. The New York Times reports that Apple said the fact Siri doesn‘t seem to help people seeking information about women’s health issues was not intentional and attributes it to Siri still being a beta product:
“Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it doesn’t always find what you want,” said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, in a phone interview late Wednesday. “These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks.”
9 to 5 Mac reports that perhaps it‘s not really Apple’s fault, pointing the potential for it to be location providers pulling up manipulated results “like when Google’s search algorithm pulls up manipulated results”.
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Comments (44)
Cool Customer
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:07amOh my god people its a telephone for crying out loud. How can you say that its morals and values are wrong? You don’t like it? Make your own!
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:59pmThis company has no less right than any other to create products that are in line with their beliefs.
I, personally, don’t think abortion should be completely banned, nor do I think it should be used frivolously. I do, however, believe that everyone has a right to their own opinion on the matter, and companies have the right to exercise their own consciences.
Report Post »donnyb
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 8:03pmUrbanCombatSurvivor,
Report Post »I, personally am with you all the way while you defend everyone’s rights until the rights you defend trample over the life of the unborn. Proverbs 6:17 says that God hates the hands that shed innocent blood! The blood of millions of slaughtered babies is crying from the ground and it is their rights that we should be defending.
PPMStudios
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:58pmYeah, so?
How come everybody who supports abortion has already been born??
Report Post »Fillup
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:58pmWell, we wouldn’t want to offend anyone, would we. Abortionists have feelings too! It‘s not like it’s a life a death thing. Oh wait,…………
Report Post »Pium Vir
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:07pmAsk it if I-Phones like garbage disposals…. Oh and No, I don’t want a newsletter…..
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:51pmyawn….
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:41pmIt‘s funny what gets people’s attention these days…A.D.D….What’s next, Oh, look at the pretty butterfly!
Report Post »perry1980
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:33pmoh i am sure that Apple’s Liberal views are pro @bortion.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:19pmIt seems maybe the the violent pro-lfers are trying to use SIRI to find more clinics to bomb, women to terrorize, and doctors to murder.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:24pmYeah, that happens really often.
Report Post »scheduler
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:25pmI like Apple even more now.
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Report Post »MommyNeedsMoreCoffee
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:40pm@Bernbart Is that supposed to be biting commentary? You don’t even believe it, so why bother writing it? It’s not funny, so it just makes you look intellectually lazy.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:45pm@MommyNeedsMoreCoffee Right and this report is biting commentary and useful news and information. Read the other nonsensical posts on both sides of this non issue. Clearly, ignorance breeds ignorance in many situations on many issues.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:15pmWhy is it only Blaze is making a big deal of this? After all of th clinics and private OBGYNs who perform abortions, abortion is only a small part of their services.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:25pmLet’s see, 90% of the women who go into planned parenthood go in knocked up, 95% of them leave not knocked up, don’t see much room for other services.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:53pm@Swampy Oh please. I’m not a fan of abortion but I am of intellectual honesty. The majority of people who go to Planned Parenthood do so for cheap birth control, vag exams, and STD screening.
Report Post »RaidersImperium
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:33pm@weakendatbarbies– intellectual naiveté, POleeeez!!!
Report Post »everything you said and 50 million+ abortions…anything but planning parenthood. does anyone one think any family planning goes on there? at what rate to baby murders? Speaking of Tim Tebow on the other pages– his mother was told to abort, he wouldn’t make it to birth. Drs are as stupid as the rest of us
krispy01
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:15pmNot true ! I asked it to find the nearest abortion clinic and it returned 2 locations.
Report Post »NeverSurrender
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:14pmThis is stupid. Why would Apple make such and ignorant statement instead of just saying “There is no such company called The Abotion Clinic so if you search for abortion clinic you will not find one. However if you search Siri for “reproduction health” you will find every abortion clinic.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:17pmThat is because there are no clinics that only perform abortions.
Report Post »JakeEllis
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 6:55pmbernbart. Over and over again you show you are a communist liberal troll. Planned Parenthood is a taxpayer funded abortion factory. You on the other hand, along with communist liberal troll Jrook are a shining example of the need for post birth abortions.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:55pmHeaven forbid that any company should be caught and embarrassed by being pro life. Definitely a time to back pedal and apologize.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:04pmThey wouldn’t be able to get directions to the CHRISTMAS parties…bazaar story..
Report Post »themanchildmustgo
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:46pmtunecore.com…”where have all the children gone?”
Report Post »iTunes.com
Mapache
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:42pmMaybe its the GOD app acting up!
Report Post »PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:53pmlol now that’s funny!
Report Post »MikeTheNuke
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:36pmLet’s start from first principles… Siri is GARBAGE! As an Apple customer since ‘84, I’m reminded of Windows “vaporware”. Siri was the crown jewel on Apple’s multimillion $$ ad rollout for the iPhone 4S and when the steaming pile of Siri Servers couldn’t handle the demand, Apple’s reply is, “Oh, it’s still in Beta.” Excuse me? How many reputable companies put millions of dollars promoting a product feature when it’s in beta form (as in, not realiable or ready for mass customer use). Serious scam and a huge disappointment from Apple.
As for this particular search coming up with zilch, that‘s been my experience time I’ve tried to use the service. I just turned if off. Absolute false-advertising garbage.
Report Post »righthanddrive
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:34pmI think this is Asimov’s first law of Robotics: “A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm” at work!!!! Machines ‘learn’ quickly I see and the libs do not like it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:31pmThe apotheosis of Steve Jobs continues.
Report Post »cuervo-gold
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:23pmYeah….it has nothing to do with Steve Jobs being adopted instead of aborted. He expressed his gratitude to his mother for not aborting him to his biographer so it is easy to see where he stands on this subject.
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:57pmThat does not mean he did not believe in legal abortion.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:19pmHow many “complaints” did they have to receive to go public with this? 1, 2, 3? Or just 1 ACLU lawyer bored with suing some “rich white guy”?
Report Post »Vet with Vendetta
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:10pmAnother huge waste of time meant to keep the sheeple from thinking. Watch the other hand.
Report Post »randy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:08pmApple’s Siri will now soon promote and facilitate the murder of innocent babies
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:21pmThe only people committing murder or promoting murder is OR.
Report Post »randy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:26pmOr?
Report Post »SCgunner
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:07pmSiri, please tell me how to get rid of this administration sooner…..
Report Post »jopmur
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:07pmIt’s amazing, and sad, that something that should be cheered is said to be “unintentional”. WTG liberals.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:05pmSo that means what? Siri is for killing babies? In which case Apple is for killing babies?
Report Post »bernbart
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:58pmBabies are not being killed. As abortion is a legal medical proceedure and it is FETUS, not a baby.
Report Post »Cold Hard Truth
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 10:52pm@Bernbart. The unfortunate fact that clinically performed infanticide is legal in our great nation has no bearing on whether or not the victim is a baby. Babies are being butchered everyday because a fetus IS A BABY!
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