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April 5, 2016 06:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CAx_B3kuVEE/tech-firms-have-an-obsession-with-female-digital-servants
Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants
An anonymous reader writes: Alexa, Tay, Siri, Cortana, Xiaoice, and Google Now. These technologies all have one thing in common -- they are digital servants aimed at a mass-market audience that feature a "female" voice or persona. And it's not just the voice or persona of the digital persona we interact with that is biased. The results of those interactions also demonstrate male favoritism. It took Apple more than four years to fix Siri's responses to questions about abortion services, and yet the company didn't seem to have any problem programming Siri to search for prostitutes and Viagra. Here's the gender breakdown for the tech workforce of each company: Microsoft: 83.0% male, 16.9% female Google: 82.0% male, 18.0% female Apple: 79.0% male, 22.0% female Amazon: 61.0% male, 39.0% femaleRead more of this story at Slashdot.
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