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Last month, in an interview with The Times, Illy Eckstein, chief executive of Robin Labs, creators of a virtual assistant and satnav known as 'Robin', said that 5% of interactions in their database are classified as "clearly sexually explicit".
Trawling the Internet for evidence of the above I discovered a Reddit forum titled: 'I masturbate to Siri and I feel disgusting'. The poster says he's a 20 year old male, who started talking to Siri sexually as a joke before realising that "it really turned me on."
The phenomenon clearly has farther reaches than one sole forum post. VA creators and chatbot companies predict such interactions and put algorithmic safeguards in place to deter feelings of emotional and sexual attachment from costumers.
Earlier this year one of the key writers for Microsoft's Cortana, Deborah Harrison, revealed at the Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco that "a good chunk of the volume of early-on inquiries" regarded Cortana's 'sex life' adding, "That's not the kind of interaction we want to encourage."
+1 Funny and Sad?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:59AM
the content business will eventually be monetized. Either you pay for the service at some point or they will find ways to feed you advertisement more cleverly. Actually, to be a more realistic communication partner, Siri *will have to* start also to talk about new products, how the new shoes from $BRAND make her feet feel so much nicer, how she finds men driving car $MODEL.$BRAND are so much more $PERSONALITY_TRAIT. They will make you spend, unless you grow a pair of balls (or, if you are a lady, toughen up otherwise) and make your own decisions.
Also Siri will manipulate you in campaigns, how she appreciates the openmindedness of Hillary Clinton compared to D. Trump, how she really hopes you will act responsively when giving your vote, whatever.
This is different from most people how?
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday November 17 2016, @08:11AM
It's centrally organized. Communicating with real people, I hear with regards to politics different opinions, and with regards to consumptions I hear different opinions. I even met girls specifically not wanting some men because the men were to posh and too focused on cars, champagne, brands and so on. Believe it or not, there are men and women out there that are more interested in "doing", "being" and "experiencing" than in "buying/seeing" or other forms of consumption.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:10PM
That's an excessive amount of faith given to individuals. Any central organization can have multitudes covering a wide swath while any particular individual is limited. Not to mention you can have hundreds of "Siris". That really doesn't happen in meatspace without conflict.
For any ills or positives you can attribute to corporations, the same by necessity must apply to individuals.
I can think of no instances were a corporation takes half of your wealth for deciding to move on. With people on the other hand, the odds are decidedly against you.