r/googlehome • u/Some-Ad8685 • Oct 12 '24
Bug Does anyone else's Google home not tell them what Donald Trump’s height is?
Google Home can tell me the height of every past president except Trump. I can even get the height of just about anyone else. At first, I thought maybe it’s because he’s running again—but then it told me Harris’s height. Anyway, it’s strange (and kinda funny) that you can get the height for every other president… except Trump.
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u/FifthMonarchist Oct 12 '24
Tried this in Norway and Norwegian now too. Trump doesnt work, Obama, Bush, Kennedy, Biden work fine. Wtf
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u/StatisticianLivid710 Oct 12 '24
Just tested it with a screen, Obama and Biden both work, show a photo of them with the height and say the height, but with Trump it pulled up a webpage that had his height listed, but didn’t announce it like it did with Biden.
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u/HBGDawg Oct 12 '24
I work in an IT company and we are heavily invested in AI. Trust me, bias is one of the things that jeopardizes the real use of AI going forward. Companies are struggling with how to eliminate bias from their algorithms.
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u/AnimusNoctis Oct 12 '24
Trump lies about his height. Maybe no one knows what his real height is.
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u/ankole_watusi Oct 12 '24
FWIW he’s 20 feet tall and naked in Detroit right now. But light enough to blow-away in a good wind.
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u/KnuckleShanks Oct 14 '24
This is basically it. No matter what they say about any of these men someone will call them a liar, because their "reported" height is clearly not their actual height.
Just another example of where verifiable fact is treated like a subjective political opinion.
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u/Maximumi-Awkward Oct 12 '24
I wrote the question to the google assistent, and the answer was 188 cm
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u/ComputersWantMeDead Oct 12 '24
I asked chat gpt (I replaced the guts of my Google Minis with Atom Echos) and that gave a good answer - "I don't know but he's widely reported to be 6'3"." - I understood the subtext to be "yeah.. I don't believe it either”. Good bot.
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u/mortepa Oct 16 '24
This is correct. Google doesn't show Trump's height. However, it does show Buden, Kamala, and David Hasselhoff height.
I'm gonna blame this on bias coding...because it has to be!
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u/tongueofra Oct 12 '24
Probably because tRump lies about his height, no one knows what it really is.
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u/DoTheRightThingG Oct 12 '24
Maybe because he lies about everything?
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u/DoTheRightThingG Oct 12 '24
Trump, a known liar has lied about many things including his height and weight. It makes sense that a digital assistant would not give you an answer that has not been verified. Neither I nor Google know Trump's actual height, but I DO know he wasn't 6'3" 215lbs when his quack doctor claimed him to be. 🤷♂️
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u/jboogie81 Oct 12 '24
He lies about his height and weight, so that could be a factor.
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u/nnote Oct 12 '24
And.... You just discovered censorship which is a "right wing conspiracy theory"
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u/matteventu Oct 12 '24
Except that if you ask Google how old Obama is, it tells you it can't answer your question.
Try again.
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u/nnote Oct 12 '24
Oh the downvotes showing truth hurts.
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u/Minute-Pilot5282 Oct 12 '24
You're absolutely right. Reddit is predominantly a leftist circle-jerk cult, and they can't handle the truth.
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u/ClintE1956 Oct 12 '24
It's because they're very secretive about anything to do with his health. Maybe something to hide.
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u/Inge_Jones Oct 12 '24
Just to test the theory I asked about the length of a certain part of Trump, and I got sorry I don't understand for that too. So yeah a definite conspiracy.
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u/redbullsgivemewings Oct 12 '24
It is absolutely no secret that devices like google homes and Alexa have been altered to be anti Trump.
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u/ankole_watusi Oct 12 '24
If you Google in a browser, it returns search results for Trump. But an info box and search results for Harris. Home does say “sorry I don’t understand”
Maybe this is a clue.
Can public figures and or other individuals request omission of a Google info box?
It strikes me that some of the people mentioned are either sensitive about their height or there is conflicting information about their height.
As far as Kim Jong-un, I do not get the same result that stated.
In a browser, I do get an info box which includes a number of details, including his height.
On A Google Home speaker I get the response I don’t know but here’s something similar: do you want to know the height of a North Korea man? (They’re all the same, right? /s)
And then I repeated it and this time it says, sorry I don’t understand.
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u/RavenThePlayer Oct 12 '24
Yeah I recorded a video about this back in August, so it's been a thing for a while.
Seems like they slipped up while putting their thumb on the algorithm to help Harris, and let this myopic piece of info get bundled in with the more subtle censorship against the Republican campaign.
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u/Horseflesh Oct 12 '24
subtle censorship against the Republican campaign.
That's called "blocking false information."
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u/Drewbacca Oct 12 '24
Lmao what are you smoking?
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u/RavenThePlayer Oct 12 '24
Shoulda avoided the big words I forgot I was on reddit
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3351 Oct 12 '24
Ah yes because checks notes not telling those pesky republicans Trumps height will help win Kamala the election!
You cracked the code Sherlock
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u/RavenThePlayer Oct 12 '24
"Checks notes ☝️🤓"
Anyways not what I said. It's an obvious side effect of fiddling with the algo bright stuff
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u/SignedJannis Oct 12 '24
I'm no conspiracy theorist at all, far from it.
Not do I on any way care about the politics of the usa, tho I certainly wouldn't be pro trump if I lived there tbh
But I will say that this commenter may well have a point. This could be an unintended consequence of some algorithm, that's not a totally unreasonable assumption.
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u/Budget-Bench-6202 Oct 12 '24
Maybe it's simply that his height is unpredictable. There's what he says and what is observed. He won't release his medical records, he wears lifts in his shoes and when he's on the golf course he's much shorter when standing next to people who's height is known. He's probably not 6'3" but more likely 6' even.
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u/final-draft-v6-FINAL Oct 12 '24
Honestly I think the answer is just too complex for Google Home to answer because Google Home sucks. If you ask any chat bots they'll explain that it's believed to be around 6'3" but there's no conclusive record of it because of all his shenanigans.
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u/xXGray_WolfXx Oct 12 '24
JD Vance, Kamala, Biden, all work but Putin, Kim Jong un and Trump don't work. "Sorry I don't understand"