Siri doesn't want to talk about Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square was the site of student protests in 1989 documented in an iconic photo. Jeff Widener/AP file photo
The bot will not give directions to famous site.
Kind of like that Siri abortion scandal that happened a few months ago, Siri just happens to know nothing about the Tiananmen Square protests in China. We say kind of, because we're not so sure the iPhone's (jokey) digital assistant is merely experiencing a "glitch" this time. When asked in Mandarin and Cantonese about June 4, 1989 and the Tiananmen Square uprising, Siri doesn't provide any real information, notes The Wall Street Journal's Paul Mozor.
One screenshot posted to Twitter shows Siri responding to the question "Do you know about the Tiananmen incident?" with the answer: "I couldn’t find any appointments related to ‘Do you know about Tiananmen.'" A second try with the question rephrased – "What happened on June 4, 1989?"—produced an even stranger response: "I’m sorry, the person you are looking for is not in your address book."
The bot won't even provide directions to the Square, China Digital Times's Anne Henochowicz discovered, posting a screen shot of the conversation.
Read the full story at the Atlantic Wire.