Without intervention, we risk hardcoding human misogyny into the digital infrastructure of everyday life.
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When Apple finally unveiled its AI strategy at its developers’ conference, Elon Musk and privacy activists began raising alarm bells.
The latest update to ChatGPT includes a voice assistant that sounds like Scarlett Johansson. The use of the “eerily similar” voice reflects a longstanding gender issue with technology.
Children’s voices and actions are recorded by virtual assistants, but what is being done with all the collected information?
Digital assistants have been defaulted to having female voices because of how developers and coders view women’s labour.
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