{"id":12711,"date":"2015-06-30T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12711"},"modified":"2015-06-30T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:51:01","slug":"are-cortana-and-siri-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/are-cortana-and-siri-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Cortana And Siri Sexist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/063015_1147_AreCortanaA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011 Jenny Davis wrote about some of the more troubling aspects of automated mobile assistants such as Apple&#8217;s Siri, and Microsoft&#8217;s Cortana:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both voice assistants, despite being digital, are very clearly set up to be female.<\/li>\n<li>Since they&#8217;ve been personified they&#8217;ve also been sexualized. Both systems come with pre-programmed responses to the sexual questions that programmers knew\u00a0would inevitably be asked of them.<\/li>\n<li>The systems are designed to play subservient roles. They&#8217;re meant to be there when you need them, and to disappear when you don&#8217;t, and they&#8217;re expected to anticipate and fulfil your desires.<\/li>\n<li>The sexism and misogyny this implies is concerning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/10\/24\/siri-intersections-of-gender-economy-and-technology\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/10\/24\/siri-intersections-of-gender-economy-and-technology\/\">Cyborgology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2011 Jenny Davis wrote about some of the more troubling aspects of automated mobile assistants such as Apple&#8217;s Siri, and Microsoft&#8217;s Cortana: Both voice assistants, despite being digital, are very clearly set up to be female. Since they&#8217;ve been personified they&#8217;ve also been sexualized. Both systems come with pre-programmed responses to the sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/063015_1147_AreCortanaA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12715,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions\/12715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}