{"id":13779,"date":"2024-01-26T19:08:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T03:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/01\/26\/is-it-just-me-or-do-other-people-argue-with-siri\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:41:00","slug":"is-it-just-me-or-do-other-people-argue-with-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/01\/26\/is-it-just-me-or-do-other-people-argue-with-siri\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it just me? Or do other people argue with Siri?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wasn\u2019t even trying to argue with Siri. I didn\u2019t ask Siri for anything!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Suddenly Siri answered a question that I hadn\u2019t asked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was talking to the dog Jesse and apparently Siri thought \u201cJesse \u201c sounded enough like Siri that it needed to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told Siri to shut the fuck up. Then Siri got mouthy with me saying \u201cI wont respond to that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excuse me??? Dumb shit, you DID just respond to that! Gee Siri you\u2019re not too bright for a computer are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri: \u201cI found some results on that, I can display them for you if you ask from your iPhone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, Now I\u2019m curious. I pick up my iPhone I ask Siri to display the results<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The little Siri indicator on my iPhone was moving like it does when it\u2019s listening so obviously Siri knew I was using the iPhone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT and this is a serious BUG as far as I\u2019m concerned. The HomePod also heard what I said and told me again it could display the result if I asked using my iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WTF????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pressed the side button on my iPhone which manually activates Siri and asked again. Again the HomePod responds and tells me to ask from my iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you notice the endless loop here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I try again, this time whispering to my iPhone like Creepy Joe Biden trying to sound threatening. Again the HomePod responds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I leave the living room and go into the bathroom once again pressing the button on the iPhone and whispering my request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HomePod minis in the bedroom hear me and tell me to ask from my iPhone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUCK!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I\u2019m pissed and call Siri a piece of shit. I ask what happened to Siri automatically showing results on my nearest devices with displays, like the iPad and iPhone? It used to do that without question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri: \u201cOh you\u2019ve lost your iPad let me make it make a sound.\u201d
Me: No! Stop! Don\u2019t make a sound on my iPad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri completely ignores me and OH, just to be EXTRA helpful Siri plays the sound on the iPad and keeps playing it. I pressed the power button and both the volume buttons. The iPad even with physical confirmation that the unit was in the hands of a human KEEPS making an annoyingly loud sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I force restarted the damn machine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this what we have to look forward to? Is this our future? Will I be subjected to Siri misbehaving and refusing to comply with command directives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know Siri is just a clever approximation of AI. I don\u2019t really like \u201cIntelligent\u201d assistants, on my phone or when I\u2019m \u201cON the Phone\u201d talking to a corporation to get assistance with their product or service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d love to know why I, an adult male, who speaks English natively can\u2019t get these systems to respond in any helpful way. It begs the question for me; am I the only person who has trouble with these bits of software? Is it that I speak English with little to no accent? If I spoke with a heavy accent would I get better response?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\u2019m not the only person having problems with these systems, the why are they ubiquitous?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri does often work for me. But when Siri screws the pooch it\u2019s major. The most recent iteration of Siri also has a defect in its responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re using the Siri American voice 1, and you say \u201cSiri stop playing music in 2 hours,\u201d Siri responds \u201cStopping in two hours.\u201d But unlike in the past, it now finishes the word \u201cHours\u201d as though it\u2019s asking a question. It used to sound proper, but the latest HomePod update has done something bad to the Voice responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to bash on Apple, but I do expect that testing would be done to make sure that the software works when that software interfaces with an actual Human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn\u2019t even trying to argue with Siri. I didn\u2019t ask Siri for anything! Suddenly Siri answered a question that I hadn\u2019t asked. I was talking to the dog Jesse and apparently Siri thought \u201cJesse \u201c sounded enough like Siri that it needed to respond. I told Siri to shut the fuck up. Then Siri … <\/p>\n

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