Even virtual assistants are sexually harassed

    People are very interested in learning more about the sex life of Cortana and Siri, as well as the new virtual assistants Robin, Amy and Molly. Developers “humanize” their creations to get closer to people, and users, in turn, crave dirty conversations.



    Cortana’s personal assistant should guess the user's needs, it can work with e-mail, address book and search history and can replace the standard search engine. This assistant is positioned as a woman - she even speaks in a female voice Jen Taylor. The development team, which writes scripts and jokes for Cortana, is also working on ways to stop all vulgar conversations. Robin

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    Assistant Developersthey look at “intimate” relationships with their project in a slightly different way. Robin should have a more "intimate and submissive relationship with sexual overtones." Analyzing more than one hundred million dialogs, the head of the project, Ilya Ekstein, found several different categories of user communication. Some of them can be described as a "friendly banter," other people want to receive only facts without any communication. There is a group whose members really like how Robin repeats curses with a gentle female voice.

    Siri jokes about the harassment of iPhone owners.

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    Sometimes people are looking for datingwithout realizing that they are communicating with the program. Amy Ingram planner from x.ai receives flowers, chocolates and whiskey from users. One user called her on a date, but she refused. Sometimes they even fall in love with her.



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