2 An Offensive Definition

Normally, Siri’s wrong answers are funny — and at worst, slightly annoying. But at one point in 2015, the digital assistant included a definition that was offensive and quickly called out by activists. When asked to define “bitch,” Siri would give the correct biological definition of a female canine.

But the results also included a second definition that said the word was “black slang” for a woman. This didn’t go over well, and rightfully so. Again, it isn’t entirely Apple’s fault: Siri appears to have pulled the definition from the Oxford Dictionary. But other sources did tag the word with an explicit “offensive” label, so the goof arguably should have been caught earlier.