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Here We Go Again: “Iris” (Android’s Version Of Siri) Says “Abortion Is Wrong”


Well, this is awkward.

As you may recall, Apple was left with a bit of an uncomfortable PR situation late last year, after folks discovered that the iPhone’s friendly electronic helper, Siri, ‘refused’ to direct users to abortion clinics. As it turned out, no, there was not an anti-choice agenda behind Siri’s attitude — just crummy beta technology glitchiness.

But, as bad as that was, the Verizon Android version of Siri, “Iris,” is a far murkier problem.

Because while Siri seemed not to understand what abortion clinics were (or, at the very least, didn’t know how to get you to one) Iris appears to actively oppose the very concept.

Take this video from Right Wing Watch, in which Iris is seen railing against abortion (and even citing biblical texts!), after being asked “is abortion wrong”:

What is going on? Turns out, it all boils down to Iris’ search engine.

As Think Progress found, Iris gleans all her responses from ChaCha, otherwise known as the slightly less popular version of Ask Jeeves (if that were possible). Not surprisingly, if you search the same questions on ChaCha that you ask on the Android, you get the same answers.

And there’s a reason that ChaCha might have a bias. Why? Because, according to Gizmodo all of ChaCha’s answers are provided by paid freelancers (a.k.a. actual humans) who “edit, crosscheck and approve” the content you search for.

Ah, good old fashioned, hand-censored search results.

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  • Anonymous

    Seems the artificial intelligence devices are trying to tell you something. Will anyone listen?

  • Batdawg

    and you think God is wrong? and that 51 million babies slaughtered so far in the usa is aok?

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    I pray to electronic devices every night.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    God is dead, my dear friend. I’m sorry.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I believe in DOG.

  • http://twitter.com/gme11 Gail Evans

    In the actual Bible, not something right-wingers made up, God says (in 8 places) that life begins when you take your first breath, and not before.  If you don’t like that, take it up with God.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJJSILKHBQ2XBN7MX6FUFMDJM4 Dr. M

    The humans who worked on Siri are likely anti-abortion nut cases and that was no mistake.  I say that Siri should have an abortion or perhaps a death sentence by stomping.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJJSILKHBQ2XBN7MX6FUFMDJM4 Dr. M

    Please list the biblical citations.

  • bob ross

    “Open the pod door HAL”

  • Anonymous

    Seems like someone doesn’t know what artificial intelligence is…or actual intelligence.

  • Jesmer_e

    How come it’s always men, shooting off their mouths about abortion?  Could it be because a woman’s choice on the matter is one of the few things they can’t control?  Nah….

  • Anonymous

    My wife does something with electronic devices every night too as I hear her screaming…..OH GOD!

  • Anonymous

    Verison donates assloads to republican and right leaning causes so this is no surprise.

  • http://conurls.com/ Chris Jones

    Oh No! Cue the manufactured outrage! Cue the apologies!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    please tell me the exact moment life begins?   If most people who support abortion are against it, 8 months and 3 weeks into a pregnancy because they see its a baby.   Then what is the exact time and day into a pregnancy that life begins for that baby?  I should be able to say scientifically life begins at an exact moment, it should be measurable.  With the exception of conception it isn’t measurable. 

  • FuckSacramento

    If you don’t like abortion, Chuckles, you should have stopped your mother from aborting you.

  • Mo Fokker

    Isn’t Sacrament in the San Joaquin Valley? It is hotter than hell there.

  • Mo Fokker

    moved

  • Mo Fokker

    Batdawg,

     please review the following scripture:

    http://goo.gl/ajoE6

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    Amazing. A gizmo that has a higher intelligence level than liberals. I bet if liberals started listening to Siri, the next MLK or Booker T. Washington would have lived.

  • Anonymous

    Well, as usual, the right leaning folks are more charitable and can spell better.  Of course life starts at the moment of conception.  Are all of you reading this glad your mom did not have an abortion?  I’m very sorry I had one, and even when it was illegal.  I talked myself into “it’s just a piece of tissue!”  I regret it forever.  My hair fell out, and I would almost faint from having a D&C without anesthetic and the illegal doctor told me to not make any noise.  I wish I had that child.  I do not have grandchilden because they became abortions.  That’s the penalty we are paying in my family.  I know there are many homes out there who would welcome a baby if you can’t handle it, don’t kill it…please!   

  • Anonymous

    Exodus 20:13 in the unedited Jewish bible reads: 13 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; {S} thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
     
    The ONLY reference to abortion in the bible is this: 
    “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
    “And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth . . .”–Ex. 21:22-25
     

  • Anonymous

    Question:  Are these YOUR “babies”?  If not, mind your own business.  The women who have abortions will have to account for their own actions before God, if there is one who is interested in abortions, and they don’t pose a threat to you or to society.

  • Anonymous

    The people who wrote the Jewish bible believed that a fetus became a person once its head passed the birth canal.  For the people who believe that the bible is inerrant, perhaps they should follow its tenets.

  • Anonymous

    When does life begin for a chicken, super?  When you have your scrambled eggs in the morning, are you eating a couple of chickens?  They are a life too, no less worthy of notice than yours, I’m sure.

  • Anonymous

    Or the next John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy might not have. 

  • Anonymous

    You said: “Of course life starts at the moment of conception. ”

    And THAT’S the reason you’ve been having the problems and your feelings of guilt.  There are many who aren’t so affected and NO they don’t develop breast cancer because of it.  It amounts to each woman’s life circumstances and her own choice.

  • Anonymous

    Genesis 2:7 Genesis 2:7 …
    “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
    Ezekiel 37:1-10 Ezekiel 37:1-10 …
    (5) “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live…”
    (6) “And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live;”
    (9) “… Come from the four winds O breath and breathe into these slain that they may live”
    (10) “… and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet…”

  • Anonymous

    Lora, when does life begin?  Why does life start when docs mix them up in petrie dishes?
    If I had seen a picture of my little baby (instead of just a nameless blob, a fetus) I would never had done what I did.   

  • LoraSinger

    And what if it had been a little 1″   shrimp-like blob which it is up to about 12 weeks of pregnancy?   I doubt it would have impressed you. I used to be against abortion too, until I talked to the women and then saw what came down from the operating room.  I’m pro-choice now because as far as I can see, it’s the anti-abortionists who have made it into a far bigger issue than it should be.

  • Jjoz

    Eight places? I think not. Better go actually read your bible!

  • Anonymous

    Well, this can go on and on, but look at the pictures on the net…it looks like a baby even a few weeks!  They didn’t have such imaging when I was young.  Did you know the real meaning of the word “issue,” it is that which comes forth (it is not a problem…our English is getting corrupted).  It is a huge issue, pro-choice is pro-murder.  If people have sex they should know what the consequences can be.  So many people want a baby and cannot have one.  It is a little life.  Do more research.  Did you know that some late-term abortionists “Harvest” parts?  …there will be big money in that if ever legal. That means selling the parts (as they do some of the placentas.  )  As one doctor sold parts of bodies that were sent to his morturary.  Life is a miracle.  Cherish it.  Sex is not a toy, or an itch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mpiercepoupore Marlene Pierce Poupore

    Sorry.  I don’t know why everyone thinks Democrats are pro-choice and Republicans are pro-life.  It just isn’t that cut and dried.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mpiercepoupore Marlene Pierce Poupore

    Plus, I think the point here is that a large corporation is using subliminal messages to sway public thought.

  • Anonymous

    “The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope. Because, if a machine, a smartphone, can learn the value of human life… Maybe we can too.”

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

     Correct…It is liberalism that is the culprit here. It’s just that a higher percentage of  Democrats are liberals than Republicans are.
    The guilt of abortion  comes with the association.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Iris is right.
    Without the right to life….what other rights are there?

  • Ricci Dats Me

    I YAWN at all of this BS. Not a single anti-abortion person on the planet has an answer for the people/women who dont want their “pregnancy”. Idiots say “dont have sex” -yeah, that works, it works excellent, which is why we have the highest pregnancy rate of any industrialized nation for single moms (we also have the highest ignorance of birth control, abortion and education in general.-YAY USA-) When the anti-abortion people open up huge, well funded orphanages (we have one too many orphans in this “wealthy country”), then you can deal in meddling in the lives of people who decide what is best for “their family” before the “life” means a god (lower case) damn thing! But at least, its “halftime in America”.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Gotta love contemporary mythology! Got any Zeus quotes? He stars in a few stories that are very similar to baby Jesus origin stories.

  • Anonymous

    Try: http://pocm.info/

    It’s really an interesting read.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I’e always heard as well.

  • Dharmabrighteyes

    babies breath in their mother’s womb so that’s where life starts.

  • Anonymous

    Why would you think that someone would feel guilty that some stranger made their own choice about abortion? 

  • Anonymous

    The answer was given by a human. 

  • Anonymous

    look at the pictures on the net…it looks like a baby even a few weeks! ”
    ………….
    I did and they don’t.

  • Dharmabrighteyes

    Significantly, the Bible describes a human life as existing in the womb. The psalmist David wrote concerning God: “Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing.” (Psalm 139:16) David does not simply say “an embryo” but “the embryo of ME,” thus accurately revealing that David’s life began when he was conceived, long before his birth. Under inspiration by God, David also revealed that at conception the development of his body parts was according to a plan, or detailed ‘written’ instructions, which made him the person he was.

  • LJB57

    Of course it’s wrong, Murder is always wrong.
    Mothers murdering their unborn babies is a particularly heinous crime again humanity.
    You liberals have passed the nazi’s in  your lack of respect for human life.

    May Satan have his way, with you feminazi’s and you liberal girly men too..

  • LoraSinger

    Psalm 1139:16 in the original reads : Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in Thy book they were all written–even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
    No, babies don’t breath in their mother’s womb. They are oxygenated by the blood in their circulatory system, but they don’t actually breath.

  • LoraSinger

    Nonetheless, LJB, it’s none of your business unless they are YOUR babies.  Why is it necessary for you to force your particular view on everyone through legislation. Most of you lot can’t even run your own lives – so the church does it – but you aren’t about to run everyone elses.

    Newsflash:  Revelation has been and gone – when Rome (the whore who sits on seven hills)  demolished Israel in 70AD.  It has nothing to do with todays times or Christians and a returning man-god, Jesus.

  • LJB57

    It damn well is my business and everyone else’s, when women are murdering babies.
    I’m not forcing my view on anybody, you are, seeing you replied to me, not the other way round.
    I’m stating my opinions, and if you don’t like them that’s just too bad, don’t read ‘em.
    The internet allows us our hitherto unheard voice to be heard, so expect to hear it.

    Your understanding of revelations is nil, it’s metaphorical not to be taken literally.

  • Homesower

    So I can murder someone and society has no interest, only God?  Or is it only socially productive people I can’t murder but the rest are fair game?

  • Homesower

    Its always men?  Please,  you know that is not true.

  • Homesower

    Of course it is her choice.  That has no bearing on whether it is right or wrong.  Neither does guilt afterward.  If your conscience has been hardened you won’t feel the guilt, you will just be dead inside.

    It is not just the baby that dies.

  • Homesower

    Yes, when they make this a perfect world only then can we consider right and wrong.  And of course all abortions would otherwise end up as orphans.

  • LJB57

    Lets kill the unborn for fear of another Hilter…right lora.

  • LJB57

    Diary of a Madwomen… by lorasinger.
    I’m outta here, you’re spooky!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

     all life has value.  It would seem you would place ZERO value of the life of a person that disagrees with your opinion.  Getting back to my question.  Try to answer it if you can. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    What pro abortion women forget is most of the time they have a choice.  Its that they now desire a second shot at making a choice again.  

     and what about the woman i think her name was Ms Jane Roe. 

    Her position on abortion has changed drastically. 

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_McCorvey

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

     as science develops the the age a baby can live outside of the womb increases.  Just because of the size of the baby is small doesn’t change the fact its a baby and its alive. 
    Science is the biggest problem pro abortion people have today.

  • Anonymous

    Set up strawmen much, servus?

  • Anonymous

    So has mine, being first anti-abortion like you – ever since I talked to the women, heard their reasons and then saw the POC that came down in the jars. I’m firmly pro-choice now because I dealt with it on a different level than you.  You are still caught up with the little nebulous visions of perfect little men that you feel should be legislation-protected because YOU feel it should be so.  A really big helping of “mind your own business”  is in order.  The service, like any other surgical procedure, should be in place for those that want it, and they are free to use it or not.

  • Anonymous

    In what way is science a problem for pro-choice people?

  • LJB57

    Hypocrite much, margret sanger?

  • Anonymous

    Well, Lora, sorry for you.  Look at http://www.babycenter then 8 12 weeks development.  Those of us who have had babies, and even see our puppies when young recognize this as baby.  I see where LJB is pertty smart and understanding of life.  Lora, you must have had a horrible experience with religion, or a man, or abortion, or something to make you so bitter.  Open your heart, ask God for enlightenment.  Many people have a distorted view of what we call “God.”  He’s not understandable, He’s not even a “HE”…he’s so awesome, and he is love who created this world, and gave us the privilege of being co-creators to bring little souls into the world.  It’s so sad so many are going the wrong way.  We will be punished for the many abortions in America.  We have been blessed in the past because of people such as George Washington, prayer in school, etc.  We did some terrible things to Indians and such, but we didn’t kill babies.  Bless you and heal you from your hurt.

  • Anonymous

    So I can murder someone and society has no interest,”

    Strawman!  If you kill someone already born, then you are a threat to others in society.  And according to your bible, God is interested as are the police forces concerned.  Nobody said that “the rest” are fair game but YOU as a group are trying to legislate your mores into areas that are simply none of your business.  If you are against abortion, then  don’t have one and leave others to do what is right for them.

  • Anonymous

    You wrote: “It would seem you would place ZERO value of the life of a person that disagrees with your opinion”
    ………………..
    It would seem that you are possessed of convoluted reasoning.  What I’m hearing from you is that I place no value on the life of the person I’m talking to/disagreing with - It makes no sense.

    When does life begin for a fetus?  Quote: “Since all authorities accept that the end of an individual’s life is measured by the ending of his brain function (as measured by brain waves on the EEG), it is logical  that an individual’s life begins with the onset of that same human brain function as measured by brain waves recorded on that same instrument ”

    “Bergstrom’s “Development of EEG and unit electrical activity of the brain during ontogeny” is original research. Only two courses of study on still-living aborted human embryos and fetuses have ever been done. While no embryo or fetus has ever been found to have “brain waves,” extensive EEG studies have been done on premature babies.

    The human part of the brain—the cortex—is not fully developed, as shown by “brain waves” on an EEG, until very late in gestation; in fact the EEG continues to change and mature. The “individuating” function of a person’s brain doesn’t start to come into existence until the outer surface of the cortex begins to develop those deep furrows, grooves, and convolutions (sulci and gyri) . However, these structures don’t begin to form until the last 2 months of pregnancy. ”
     
     ”By that line of research,” human life” or “human personhood” begins when brain waves are measured on an EEG. That is well into the last few months of pregnancy.Or, you can simplify it to life at first breath as your own bible indicates.

  • Anonymous

    What I’m saying – maybe I wasn’t clear – that by terminating a pregnancy, there is the equal chance of terminating a Booker T. Washington or a Ted Bundy/ Hitler.  It’s just something we will never know.

  • Anonymous

    On second thought, super, science is the biggest stumbling block for the anti-choice who are almost without exception of the ultra-religious sort, living by the mores of 2000 years ago.  Science has disproved a great deal of your mythology and you view it as a threat to your belief which  has become the core of your being.  You view a threat to your beliefs as a personal threat and when your myths are disproved, you are angry at science for doing so.

  • Anonymous

    Chill out, Servus – What a woman does with her pregnancy IS NOT any of your business and that’s a fact.

    So now feminism is a whore?  Very revealing, Servus.  It shows a pretty narrow minded fundamentalist attitude and you can have it even if you haven’t been to church for 40 years.  Why do you feel threatened by feminism?

    Of course, “judgement day” hasn’t arrived yet and it won’t in your lifetime either.  In any case, it’s part of the myth of sheepherders of 2000 years ago and is about as valid as believing your horoscope.  It’s going to be a looooooong wait, Servus.

  • Anonymous

    It damn well is my business and everyone else’s, when women are murdering babies.I’m not forcing my view on anybody.

    Contradict yourself much, Servus?

  • Anonymous

    EXCEPT that among your fervent beliefs, it seems that children under the age of accountability are given a swift ride straight to heaven, no stops, no passing GO.  Now since you believe these fetuses are all babies, they would be under the age of accountability, would they not?  Actually, it’s a pretty good deal for them – no pains of life, no chance to sin or lead a life of murder or crime – just heaven for eternity.  Why are you so adamant about life here, when clearly all of you are on pause, waiting for the carrot of eternal life on the other side. 

    Your “sermon” was quite interesting, however trite, and, as usual, an appeal to the emotions, attempting to bypass the rational – and always delivered from the lofty, self-righteous, elevated dias of your mind.  

    Your words “Lora, you must have had a horrible experience with religion, or a man, or abortion, or something to make you so bitter”  is an example of that.

  • LJB57

    You make less sense with each post.
    Now you’re babbling utter nonsense.
    How does making something my business, constitute forcing?
    like I said ,no sense at all.

  • Anonymous

    You haven’t seen Terminator 2, have you?

  • Anonymous

    This will probably be my last post, as I have things to do, but I swear to God I would help when I had my near death experience and came back.  You do not know all my beliefs.  I was fortunate enough to choose them by study and research.  My parents did not tell me to do anything but tell the truth.  I found religion myself, and all of them, not just one.  Yes, I hope my little Kathrine, the fetus is in a good place.  Read “Heaven is for Real,” the memories of a little boy was on best seller list.  He claims there are loads of dogs, so I hope my Beanie Baby is there, as I have her cremated remains here!  I have good friends, one of whom is atheist, one a Diest, several Buddha folks, my younger daughter is New Age, and many in Alanon and other groups…You must believe in a Higher Power, as I keep telling Claudia.  Yes, she’s smart, but if you don’t believe in a higher power, that makes you your own God…hear that…Mormons?  Ha…they will have a planet of their own.  I am not giving a “sermon,” and I’m not righteous…I have sinned, and broken every commandment at one time or the other.  I’m speaking from experience, and with love to have others avoid my mistakes, if possible.  I have worked with scientists most of my life, and many in my family are doctors, etc. in Kentucky and other places.  I know both sides of the coin.  I have made a complete turn…360 from believing, going to college and not believing, to bumping along the roads with hard knocks, and regrets, to believing again as my life has been sived three times, so I must be here to help others down the rocky road.  I would say from the convent school, to the fashion world and modeling, the prostitute knowledge , to working with Wade of Roe vs. Wade, to corrupt and greedy people, to high society, then along the way, abandoned after being raped,  and having three husbands, (two left me with nothing to marry wealthy wives) two children, one abortion and abortioned grand children…oh, let me do it again, or at least warn others…do not kill.   I am a writer, but have stopped for a spell.  Maybe this is where I should start up again.  I have published poems.  I sincerely hope all the best for you. 

  • LJB57

    Get off the your soapbox lady, you’ve got nothing to say and all you do is keep saying it.

    signed: Servus the invincible one.

  • Anonymous

    From what you’ve shown here, servus, only your assessment of yourself is big.

  • LJB57

    You’ve shown me nothing at all.

  • Anonymous

    AKA – Bu11shitter!

  • Anonymous

    Fascism generally comes carrying a bible and is wrapped in a flag.

  • Anonymous

    My son, Todd, killed himself nine months before I found him with a private investigator.”

    Is he the one you gave up for adoption?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, he’s the one I searched for in vain.  The Social Services were horrible in those days.  I wasn’t allowed to find him till he was 18, and then it was very difficult.  He had terrible adoptive parents receommended by the church because the church priest didn’t know what they were really like.  In fact, I think the priest molested him when they sent him there as they coudln’t control him.  I did find I have a grandson, and I’m thankful for that.  That’s one reason I got an abortion, I said “after all that trouble, look what happened.”  But since I’ve been on all these various roads, I find out it isn’t a belief in God (look at the Muslims and the Jews)…it is  misinterpretation of religion or belief… and not following “Love thy Neighbor,” that causes all these mishappenings in the name of religion.  My favorite “saint,” is Padre Pio and the Catholic bishops refused to let him offer The Sacrifice of the Mass because they doubted his wounds.  Some folks persecute their own.  HIs intercession helped me to walk, see, and hear again (from spinal meningitis)  I guess I’m sorta’ a miracle in a way.  I keep wanting to know “why?”  I have escaped death four times so far.  I just try to pass on what I’ve learned (the hard way)…  

  • Anonymous
  • LJB57

    Hitler was an atheist lora, you one too?
    (rhetorical)
    Fascist are all atheists, they don’t share authority, they burn Bibles.
    (they hate religion just like you socialist bigots.)

  • LJB57
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