{"id":136745,"date":"2019-05-22T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/?p=593754"},"modified":"2019-05-22T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:49:26","slug":"having-siri-google-assistant-other-ias-female-by-default-is-sexist-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/22\/having-siri-google-assistant-other-ias-female-by-default-is-sexist-says-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Siri, Google Assistant &amp; other IAs female by default is sexist, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/female-by-default.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s decision to make <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/siri\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Siri&#8217;s<\/a> voice female by default in the US and many other countries reinforces gender bias, claims a new United Nations report. The same complaint is levelled at Google Assistant, Amazon&#8217;s Alexa and Microsoft&#8217;s Cortana.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this, says the report, is that it &#8216;reflects and reinforces&#8217; the idea that assistants \u2013 acting in a support role \u2013 are female &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/05\/22\/female-by-default\/#more-593754\" class=\"more-link\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/05\/22\/female-by-default\/\">Having Siri, Google Assistant &amp; other IAs female by default is sexist, says UN<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/female-by-default.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s decision to make <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/siri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Siri&rsquo;s<\/a> voice female by default in the US and many other countries reinforces gender bias, claims a new United Nations report. The same complaint is levelled at Google Assistant, Amazon&rsquo;s Alexa and Microsoft&rsquo;s Cortana.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this, says the report, is that it &lsquo;reflects and reinforces&rsquo; the idea that assistants &ndash; acting in a support role &ndash; are female &hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/05\/22\/female-by-default\/#more-593754\">more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/05\/22\/female-by-default\/\">Having Siri, Google Assistant &amp; other IAs female by default is sexist, says UN<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/22\/having-siri-google-assistant-other-ias-female-by-default-is-sexist-says-un\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,452,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-zzz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136911,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136745\/revisions\/136911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}