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Apple users were amazed: why is Eyal Golan called pedophile in Siri? - Walla! TECH

2020-01-20T10:34:06.557Z


Apple users have found out in recent days that Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, calls Eyal Golan under another name. Siri has been embedded in all of the company's products, including iPhones, iPads and computers, ...


Apple users were amazed: why is Eyal Golan called pedophile in Siri?

Apple users have found out in recent days that Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, calls Eyal Golan under another name. Siri has been embedded in all of the company's products, including iPhones, iPads and computers, and among other things provides fast access to search and information about people through the Wikipedia repository

Apple users were amazed: why is Eyal Golan called pedophile in Siri?

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Apple users were shocked to find out last night when they searched for "Eyal Golan" in Hebrew, the result of "Pedigree Eyal". Siri is Apple's virtual assistant, operating across all of the company's products, including iPhones, iPads and computers. The assistant draws the data from the Wikipedia repository called "Wiki-Data", a global, multilingual repository of structured and linked data. The repository is designed so that services like Siri can work with the content more easily. "Don't know whether to cry or laugh, the result of 'reindeer' looking for Siri," wrote one of the surfers, followed by other surfers who received the same result.

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Last night Mako website reported that a similar corruption was made to the value of "Reuven Rivlin" and it is said to be "the head of the Zionist occupation". Wikipedia entries, including Wikidata, are maintained by casual users and regular editors, so that any user can edit Wikipedia's Wikidata content, and make unlimited changes. Frequently, Wikipedia editors lock in problematic values, recognizing repeated corruption. After Walla! TECH Wikipedia, value corrected. The repair was also carried out automatically in Siri, so that they now have a good result for the "Eyal Golan" value.

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Singer Eyal Golan appears in Apple's voice assistant, Siri, as "pedophile" (screenshot)

Singer Eyal Golan appears in Apple's voice assistant, Siri, as "pedophile" (photo: screenshot)

Wikipedia states: "This is a corruption that unfortunately was not detected in time and carried out by Anonymous on Wikinews, which serves as the central database of all Wikipedia's.

Eyal Golan's office has yet to receive a response, and will be published when accepted.

Source: walla

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