Siri directs prostitute-seeking iPhone users to an unexpected location
Alvin Acyapan, co-owner of the establishment, says he began receiving puzzling late-night calls from people asking for escorts shortly after the opening of his bar in November 2016. The strange phenomenon happened numerous times over the course of a few months, until one caller finally advised Alvin that it was Siri that tipped him off to look for some sexy time at that specific location.
Hi @AppleSupport , could you please explain why #siri is saying that people can find prostitutes at our place? This is kinda #awkwardpic.twitter.com/5f2HqqAt4u
— Meltdown Toronto (@MeltdownToronto) March 13, 2017
Acyapan assumes that Siri confuses the word "escorts" with "eSports" as there is only a single-letter difference between the two, but other similar questions also yielded the same results. Still, he apparently isn't too gloomy about the whole ordeal:
I see the humor in it. I always thought of it as a funny anecdote to share with my friends: ‘Hey, we run a bar and sometimes I get this kind of call.‘
Last week, the owners of the bar contacted Apple tech support via e-mail and Twitter, and it looks like the issue might be fixed at the time of writing, as Siri's current reply when asked for hookers is "I don't know how to answer that" (that or it might be a location-specific issue). For more of these AI assistant absurdities, make sure to check out our Google Assistant and Siri fails collection.
source: The Toronto Star via BGR
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