Siri wer ist angela merkel

Im Netz steht viel Quatsch und Apples Sprachassistent „Siri“ kann man nicht immer trauen. Erst kürzlich erklärte Siri, Angela Merkel sei "eine deutsche Lügnerin und Sklavin der USA" - basierend auf einer Änderung in der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia, die nur kurz online stand.

Von Mareike Meyer

Mit jedem Update lernt auch Apples Sprachassistent „Siri“ etwas dazu. Neben der Möglichkeit, das Smartphone per Spracheingabe zu bedienen, beantwortet Siri auch jede Art von Frage – oder bietet an, im Internet nach einer Antwort zu suchen. Manchmal sind die Antworten der netten Stimme aus dem Telefon neckend, manchmal frech und manchmal einfach falsch.

Wer zum Beispiel vergangenen Freitag wissen wollte, wer eigentlich Angela Merkel ist, bekam als Antwort: „Angela ,Mutti‘ Dorothea Ferkel ist eine deutsche Lügnerin und Sklavin der USA. Sie ist (leider) seit dem 22. November 2005 Bundeskanzlerin der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.“ Dazu lieferte Siri auch ein Foto der Bundeskanzlerin. Auf Nachfrage wollte man sich von Seiten der Bundesregierung nicht zum Ergebnis der Siri-Abfrage äußern. „Das kommentieren wir nicht“, teilte ein Sprecher mit.

Vandalismus auf Wikipedia

Bei der Antwort auf die Frage nach der Kanzlerin greift Siri auf einen Eintrag über Angela Merkel in der freien Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia zu, der am 24. September um 1:48 Uhr von einem Nutzer mit dem Online-Pseudonym „Poeymen“ geändert wurde.

Bereits eine halbe Stunde später hat ein Wikipedia-Administrator die Änderungen „Poeymens“ wieder gelöscht und die ursprüngliche Form des Eintrags wieder hergestellt.

Dieses kurze Zeitfenster hat wohl gereicht, um Siri mit den Fehlinformationen aus dem manipulierten Wikipedia-Beitrag zu füttern. Als Grund für die schnelle Änderung des Beitrags steht bei Wikipedia in der Versionsgeschichte „Vandalismus“. Außerdem wurde der Nutzer „Poeymen“ auf unbestimmte Zeit gesperrt. Sein falscher Merkel-Artikel wurde in den sozialen Netzwerken dennoch vielfach geteilt.

Die Antwort Siris auf die Frage nach Angela Merkel ist übrigens nicht die erste Fehlleistung des Sprachassistenten. Kurz nachdem Siri im Jahr 2012 eingeführt wurde, lautete die Antwort des Apple-Programms auf die Frage nach dem besten Mobiltelefon „Das Nokia Lumia 900“.

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Angela Merkel, née Angela Dorothea Kasner, (born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany), German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold that office and the second longest-serving chancellor in German history.

Early life

Merkel’s parents, Horst and Herlind Kasner, met in Hamburg, where her father was a theology student and her mother was a teacher of Latin and English. After completing his education, her father accepted a pastorate in Quitzow, Brandenburg, and the family relocated to East Germany (German Democratic Republic) just weeks after Merkel’s birth. In 1957 they moved again to Templin, where Merkel finished high school in 1973. Later that year she went to Leipzig to study physics at Karl Marx University (now the University of Leipzig). There she met her first husband, fellow physics student Ulrich Merkel, and the two were married in 1977. After earning her diploma in 1978, she worked as a member of the academic faculty at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin. In 1982 Merkel and her husband divorced, though she kept his last name. She was awarded a doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry in 1986.

As was the case for most children growing up in the German Democratic Republic, Merkel participated in the state’s youth organizations. She was a member of the Young Pioneers (from 1962) and the Free German Youth (from 1968). Her involvement with the Free German Youth has led to controversy, as some of her former colleagues from the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry claimed that she was active as a secretary for agitation and propaganda at the institute, though Merkel maintained that she was responsible for cultural affairs (e.g., procuring theatre tickets). Merkel was not nor did she apply to be a member of the Socialist Unity Party, and when approached by personnel of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to become an informant, she refused.

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After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel joined the newly founded Democratic Awakening and in February 1990 became the party’s press spokesperson. That month the party joined the conservative Alliance for Germany, a coalition with the German Social Union (DSU) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Several days prior to East Germany’s first and only free election in March 1990, it was revealed that Democratic Awakening’s chairman, Wolfgang Schnur, had been working as a Stasi informant for years. Although the news shook Alliance supporters, the coalition was victorious, and Democratic Awakening became part of the government, despite having won a mere 0.9 percent of the votes. Merkel became deputy spokesperson of the government of Lothar de Maizière (CDU). She joined the CDU in August 1990; that party merged with its western counterpart on October 1, the day before the reunification of Germany.

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In the first postreunification election, in December 1990, Merkel won a seat in the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) representing Stralsund-Rügen-Grimmen. She was appointed minister for women and youth by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in January 1991. Kohl’s choice of the young female political newcomer from East Germany appealed to several demographics and earned Merkel the nickname “Kohls Mädchen” (“Kohl’s girl”). Maizière, who had become the CDU’s deputy chairman after the eastern and western parties merged, resigned from his position on September 6, 1991, because of accusations of having worked for the Stasi. Merkel was elected to replace him in December of the same year. After the 1994 election Merkel became minister of environment, conservation, and reactor safety, and she presided over the first United Nations Climate Conference in Berlin in March–April 1995. In September 1998 the CDU was ousted by Gerhard Schröder and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Merkel was elected secretary-general of the CDU on November 7. She married her longtime companion, chemistry professor Joachim Sauer, on December 30 of that year.

In late 1999 a finance scandal hit the CDU, and Kohl was implicated in the acceptance and use of illegal campaign contributions. In an open letter published on December 22, Merkel, Kohl’s former protégée, called upon the party to make a fresh start without its honorary chairman. Merkel’s stance greatly increased her visibility and popularity with the German public, although it upset Kohl loyalists. On April 10, 2000, Merkel was elected head of the CDU, becoming the first woman and the first non-Catholic to lead the party. As CDU leader, Merkel faced the lingering effects of the finance scandal and a divided party. Although Merkel had hoped to stand as a candidate for chancellor in the 2002 election, a majority of her party expressed a preference for Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU’s sister party in Bavaria. After the CDU-CSU narrowly lost the election, Merkel became leader of the opposition.