My new favorite Siri/HomePod interaction just happened 😛

“Hey Siri pause”

-HomePod lowers music volume to speak-

“There's nothing playing”

-increases music volume back up-

@christianselig wake up babe new gaslight just dropped

@christianselig @stroughtonsmith Siri is the dumbest thing in the world. It will do the oddest things. When you use your phone and you *see* the correct speech to text, and then it
 hallucinates something bat shit.

Me: Siri, set the kitchen shades to 20%
Text: [the above]
Siri: playing smooth jazz in the living room!

The fuq.

@grork @christianselig @stroughtonsmith that's not hallucinating, it's just opinionated Apple design and knowing customers better than they know themselves :P

Like when they "knew" that everyone needed more U2 in their lives

@christianselig @stroughtonsmith “hey siri, set a 10 minute timer.”

Siri: “There’s already a 10 minute timer. What would you like to name it?”

Me: “Nevermind”.

Siri: “Setting a 10 minute nevermind timer.”

@interestingmonkey @christianselig @stroughtonsmith “Hey Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes”

“Can’t set a timer for 5, setting an alarm for 5 a.m.”

The _worst_!

@christianselig I had something like that:
“Hey Siri, turn on the lights in the living room”
“Okay, some of the lights didn’t respond, you can ask me which ones”
“Which ones?”
“Here’s what I found on the internet for ‘which ones’”

😐

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I’ve got to wonder if our devices are gaslighting us intentionally.

@christianselig And I thought Google Home is the worst

Me: Ok Google, Set timer to 15 Minutes

Google: Would you like to set a timer?

Me: Yes

Google: Okay, for how long?

Me: 15 minutes

Google: Setting timer to 15 minutes

*15 minutes later, timer is ringing*

Me: Ok Google, stop

Google, after taking a long time to think: Playing “Stop” by the Spice Girls!

*timer is still ringing as the spice girls begin to sing*

@vsaw @christianselig that’s literally how mine is lol
@christianselig But have you ever asked Siri to tell a joke, and it then started the Apple Music test week because it wanted to play something from Killing Joke?
@christianselig @stroughtonsmith had this last night in bed as I was going to sleep, asked HomePod to play an album, no problem, then I usually say “stop playing in 30 minutes” as I'll be asleep by then - responded with some excuse that she could only do this if some media was actually playing đŸ«€
@christianselig Briliant. I had one that went like:
"Hey Siri next track"
*lowers music*
"Your not currently connected to the internet"
*raises volume of music it was playing over the internet*
@christianselig @stroughtonsmith my favourite is “hey siri turn out the lights” “I’m sorry I can’t find a song called turn out the lights on Apple Music”

@christianselig hey siri, turn off tv

There’s nothing playing on the TV

While I stare at my tv and Apple TV very much being ON

@christianselig Hey, Siri: play why you always lyin'?
@christianselig had something similar happening a couple days ago:
„Hey Siri, skip this song“
- Siri skips song, keeps the volume low and says
„there’s nothing playing“
@christianselig we haven’t had internet at our new house for a couple months now and it makes it blindingly obvious which devices perform speech to text locally, and which need the internet. “Hey Siri stop.”
“Just a sec
 still working on it
 I’m having trouble connecting to the internet.” And then just goes back to playing music.
@mattcomi Yeah, more on-device stuff would be really cool, even if it was just for the simpler stuff

@christianselig “Hey Siri, turn off the living room tv”

*listens on HomePod, responds from phone*

“You’ll need to unlock your device first.”

@christianselig What’s the wager that Apple announces significant Siri improvements at WWDC and in the following months her IQ finally goes negative
@christianselig MAYBE IT’LL BE LIKE AN INTEGER OVERFLOW AND SHE’LL BECOME THE SUPER INTELLIGENT AI SHE WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE

@christianselig nice! my favorite of mine so far has to be:

“Hey Siri, play white noise”

“Okay, here’s ‘More Human Than Human’ by White Zombie.”

😬