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I don't think it's controversial or unsurprising at all that a company doesn't want their random sentence generator to spit out 'brand damaging' sentences. You
by madeofpalk 1y ago
I don't think it's controversial or unsurprising at all that a company doesn't want their random sentence generator to spit out 'brand damaging' sentences. You know the field day media would have Apple's new feature summarises a text message as "Jane thinks Anthony Albanese should die".
- ryandrake 1y agoWhen the choice is between 1. "avoid tarnishing my own brand" and 2. "doing what the user requested," corporations will always choose option 1. Who is this software supposed to be serving, anyway? I'm surprised MS Office still allows me to type "Microsoft can go suck a dick" into a document and Apple's Pages app still allows me to type "Apple are hypocritical jerks." I wonder how long until that won't be the case...
- chii 1y ago> I wonder how long until that won't be the case... when there's no more alternative word processors any more.
- madeofpalk 1y agoBut so often these tools are used in a way that the user didn't explicitly request, like summarising notifications, or generating slideshows from your photo library.
- userbinator 1y agoIf that's what the message actually said, why would the media be complaining? Or do you mean false positives?