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I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
by slg 4y ago
I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
- eadler 4y agoreminds me of https://globalnews.ca/news/3311903/woman-named-alexa-seary-says-its-an-ironic-coincidence-she-has-same-names-as-amazon-apple-bots/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3311903/woman-named-alexa-seary-s...
- rabuse 4y agoI know an Alexa. She hates it.
- kokocute 4y agoThe only assistant not to be paired with another word as well.
- wlesieutre 4y agoApple is reportedly planning to remove "hey" from their wake word
- sohkamyung 4y ago"Seriously?" - sorry, but Siri does not understand the word "ously". [ "Siri - ously" ] Bad pun, I know. :-)
- isomorphic 4y agoI have a dreary theory of which Siri is leery. (I'm available for QA testing.)
- wincy 4y agoI hope not, my daughters name just happens to have syllables similar but not the same as “siri” in her name and calling her name sets it off ALL THE TIME.
- wlesieutre 4y agoI agree it's a terrible idea, and yet https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-11-06/apple-s-next-change-for-siri-dropping-the-hey-in-hey-siri-trigger-phrase-la5gup9j https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-11-06/apple-...
- lrvick 4y agoShe should consider suing Amazon for recording without consent.
- code_duck 4y agoSlightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
- arcticbull 4y agoNeither was AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon when they named their mobile wallet solution ISIS shortly before the caliphate was formed. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard
- thayne 4y agoI know someone whose major in college was abbreviated as Isys (information systems). Not anymore.
- Biganon 4y agoThe credential management system at my college was called ISIS, so you had an ISIS identifier, you had to go through ISIS login, etc.
- peepee1982 4y agoAnd let us not forget The International Secret Intelligence Service in Archer.
- cozzyd 4y agoOr the awesome band.
- slazaro 4y agoDidn't they get death threats and insults on Facebook? Not only from people that would do that kind of stuff online, but also the kind of person that thinks that a terrorist organization has an official Facebook page. They had to rename their page to "ISIS the band" or something like that.
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- balls187 4y agoNot nearly as bad as "Karens" have it.
- deafpolygon 4y agoTbf, some of them deserve it.
- blowski 4y agoStrong disagree. The whole "Karen" meme reeks of old-fashioned misogyny wrapped up in 2020s language. "A woman, complaining? How dare she!". I recognise the meme is about entitled women being rude, but that behaviour is hardly isolated to women.
- FeepingCreature 4y agoAs Scott says in Weak Men Are Superweapons [1], a meme aimed against a specific, easily disliked subgroup is unavoidably an attack on the entire group by association. It is impossible to say "Karen, who is a woman, bad" without implying "women Karens, women bad." Or if there is a way to disentangle them, it certainly won't fit in a meme. [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap...
- blowski 4y agoPerhaps that hints at the problem of intentionally developing a meme stereotype, and then using it as a stick to beat people with. The bar for having that stereotype becomes ever lower, and thus the set ever bigger. People then self-censor perfectly acceptable behaviour to avoid being part of the set.
- Joker_vD 4y ago> a meme aimed against a specific, easily disliked subgroup is unavoidably an attack on the entire group by association. So that comment, by attacking a specific, easily disliked subgroup of memes is undeniably an attack on all of the memes by association. Or am I applying this wrong?
- Eleison23 4y agoI also feel bad for that Google kid I knew in high school. People were always asking him where to find stuff. He thought that changing his name from Alta Vista would stem the tide. Tragic.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoYou... are aware that Alexa and Siri are real human names, right?
- 9991 4y agoSo is Google.
- fold3 4y agoA child named Alexa had to change their name because of the bullying. https://news.yahoo.com/parents-forced-change-name-6-180554414.html https://news.yahoo.com/parents-forced-change-name-6-18055441...
- shapefrog 4y agoChildren are such pieces of shit (sometimes)
- lrvick 4y agoThey didn't have to. Never ever cave to bully demands. That only teaches them they have power.
- alpaca128 4y agoMental health is more important than telling yourself that adapting makes you weak. And please stop with this bullshit along the lines of "just ignore it", that's not how bullying works.
- lrvick 4y agoHeavily bullied as a kid. Never conformed. Maybe not the right solution for everyone but I learned those were not the types of people whose approval I needed in life.
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- anigbrowl 4y agoAlexa is not such an uncommon name. They should team up and sue, being designated as the obedient servant for the benefit of someone else's brand is a non-negligible annoyance. Ignore people who say 'tis' not that serious,' they're the sort of people who never care about anything until it happens to them.
- TheHappyOddish 4y agoWhy, what's Sue got to do with it?
- cjensen 4y agoIn my experience, Apple devices readily respond to "Sarah" which was a top-five baby girl name in 19 of the years from 1980 through the 2000 [1]. [1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html
- leosarev 4y agoIn Russia, Yandex have decided to call his voice assistant "Alice". Which is top 4 popular name in Russia.
- 05 4y agoIs it? http://popname.ru/index.php?name=%C0%EB%E8%F1%E0&name_sex=1 http://popname.ru/index.php?name=%C0%EB%E8%F1%E0&name_sex=1 #48 0.4%
- leosarev 4y agoYour data is about "percentage of female names in whole population". I'm talking about "most popular name to assign to newborns". Sorry for misunderstanding.