Apple's iPhone voice assistant service Siri has been criticized for showing distorted information that "Korea is the Korean Peninsula or the Japanese Empire-owned Joseon on the Korean Peninsula in modern history."
Siri is a program that runs on Apple's iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks since 2011.
When a user speaks, it recognizes and responds to his or her voice, so it is called an 'artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistant'.
As of today (9th), the cyber diplomacy delegation VANK said that if you run Siri and ask 'Tell me about Korea', these contents will come out.
“Korea is a region or constitutional country located in East Asia, and in modern history, it refers to the Korean Peninsula or the Japanese Empire-controlled Joseon on the Korean peninsula. In many cases, it refers to a country of origin, and in modern history, Korea was used to refer to the Republic of Korea established by King Gojong.” The text is displayed along with the voice.
Apple has identified the source of this explanation as 'Wikipedia', an online encyclopedia, but if you actually look it up, the content is completely different.
According to Wikipedia, "Today, it refers to the Korean Peninsula or the Republic of Korea on the Korean peninsula and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In modern times, 'Korea' generally refers to the Republic of Korea and 'Joseon' to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in many cases. It was also used to refer to the established Korean Empire.”
In response, Vank said, "
VANK first sent a letter of protest asking for correction, and asked netizens to participate in the correction campaign.
Previously, VANK found an error in the map that Apple installed on iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks marked the entire area of Mt. Baekdu, Cheonji, as Chinese territory.