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iPhone Siri tells a 12-year-old kid to “Shut the f*** up”

Posted: 02 Jan 2012, 07:55, by Victor H.

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iPhone Siri tells a 12-year-old kid to “Shut the f*** up”

Siri, your humble virtual assistant might have turned out not so humble after all. Charlie, a 12-year-old boy reportedly asked Siri running on an iPhone 4S a question and got the following answer: "Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***." His mum came over and couldn’t believe what she heard either.

"The phone was a demo version and was low enough on the shelf for Charlie to have a go with it. He asked it a simple question and we couldn't believe the filth it came out with,” the mother commented. "I thought I must be hearing things. So we asked again and the same four-letter stuff blared out.”

The unit was later removed from the shelf of the UK Tesco store and reportedly sent for diagnostics over to Apple, but it seems like someone has tinkered with the iPhone 4S on display to reprogram and change Siri’s usual behaviour. Charlie’s mum quickly pointed out that the phrase was “verbal abuse” but isn’t this a bit of an overreaction? What’s your take on that?

source: The Sun

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1. shafboy posted on 02 Jan 2012, 08:58 13 0

LOL is my take on it.

18. JeffdaBeat posted on 02 Jan 2012, 11:29 9 0

I kind of wish Siri had more responses like that...

2. iShepherd posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:01 24 3

Charlie's mum needs to "shut the f***k up".

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3. brenner182 posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:02 8 12

id tell the kid the same thing, becasue i hate kids.

14. sadaivadai posted on 02 Jan 2012, 10:43 12 5

Hate kids ?? So you should have killed yourself when you were a kid .. :P

25. christony1120 posted on 02 Jan 2012, 14:45 7 2

okay now your being an idiot

28. ledbetterp3 posted on 02 Jan 2012, 17:12 2 3

And for replying, so are you.

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4. remixfa posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:06 12 3

Siri gone bad... on the next episode of cops!!! Lol. How did they tamper with it? That's awesome.. I wanna go prank some friends .. lololol

24. Droid_X_Doug posted on 02 Jan 2012, 14:06 10 0

Bad Siri!
Bad Siri!
What'cha gonna do when they come for you!?

5. pongkie posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:07 4 0

oh uh she didn't!!!

6. akhi216 posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:07 4 0

Siri, why did you tell a child to shut the f*** up?

7. GALAXY-S posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:12 5 0

hhmm i wonder what that simple question was??

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8. gallitoking posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:24 6 12

I wouldnt have told him that foul language... i would have kick his a** for graving something is not yours.... what if he would have dropped it... I wish it would have exploded on that spolied little punk

9. quakan posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:41 3 0

Am I the only one who still can't think of what "t***" means? I want to say turd but that doesn't sound censorable haha.

10. ChafedBanana posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:43 6 0

Twat?

11. quakan posted on 02 Jan 2012, 09:51 2 0

aww yeah, that sounds like a perfect fit lol

30. Joshing4fun posted on 03 Jan 2012, 06:17 0 0

Time to go look that word up in Urban Dictionary...

12. Just_a_boy posted on 02 Jan 2012, 10:10 1 2

this is a lie, somebody wants to make easy money

13. johnny9000 posted on 02 Jan 2012, 10:26 5 1

Did not happen. No one at an Apple store would have the programming know how to do that, otherwise they wouldn't be working at a Apple store. This is a lie.

15. nimo posted on 02 Jan 2012, 11:13 3 0

its easy to do it, you just have to change the name in the contact card for yourself. so insead of saying your name NAME it would say whatever you've typed in there instead.