{"id":14398,"date":"2018-02-02T01:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14398"},"modified":"2018-02-02T01:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:31:36","slug":"the-feminist-enwokening-of-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/02\/02\/the-feminist-enwokening-of-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feminist Enwokening of A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14399\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SAL-9000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SAL-9000.jpg 512w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SAL-9000-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rather than just be a spying device for Amazon, Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Alexa&#8221; has gone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/26297\/amazon-alexa-will-now-refuse-respond-if-you-use-emily-zanotti#exit-modal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full woke feminist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Last year, the tech-centric e-magazine, Quartz, sponsored a study which analyzed whether various home assistants like Alexa and her competitors, Google Home, Apple&#8217;s Siri, and Microsoft&#8217;s Cortana, would respond when called vulgar names or confronted with feminist-defined sexist terms like &#8216;slut.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Amazon was, apparently, rather distressed by Quartz&#8217;s findings, even if regular, everyday Americans weren&#8217;t likely to ask Alexa whether she was a feminist, query her for her views on reproductive rights, or call her a &#8216;slut&#8217; (especially given that she&#8217;s not a real person), so they made an effort to change Alexa&#8217;s programming, making her more &#8216;woke,&#8217; and even giving her the option to rebuke sexist questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Now, when asked if she&#8217;s a feminist, Alexa responds, eye-rollingly, that she is, &#8216;[a]s is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;When called a derogatory term like &#8216;slut,&#8217; Alexa will now go into &#8220;disengagement mode&#8221; and refuse to answer a question, replying &#8216;I\u2019m not going to respond to that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Feminists are, of course, overjoyed at the faux achievement of programming a robot with no actual gender to respond to insults in a politically correct and wholly feminist way. And Amazon&#8217;s Alexa engagement team is patting itself on the back as a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If Alexa is people&#8217;s main way of interacting with Amazon, then perhaps this may spur people to abandon Amazon for less politically correct climes. There are, after all, far <a href=\"https:\/\/gatebox.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more pleasing interfaces<\/a> out there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, the best response one could give:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcO_U9Jceps\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Feminist Enwokening of AI\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Rather than just be a spying device for Amazon, Amazon's 'Alexa' has gone full woke feminist.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SAL-9000.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than just be a spying device for Amazon, Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Alexa&#8221; has gone full woke feminist: &#8220;Last year, the tech-centric e-magazine, Quartz, sponsored a study which analyzed whether various home assistants like Alexa and her competitors, Google Home, Apple&#8217;s Siri, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/02\/02\/the-feminist-enwokening-of-a-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[77,86,48],"class_list":["post-14398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-science","tag-derp","tag-science","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14402,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions\/14402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}