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The "fines for being wrong" can also include lawsuits when you inappropriately reject a customer because what your salesperson thought was Farsi turns out to be some Indian dialect because he's simply bad at recognizing languages and was recently reprimanded for his failure to recognize Farsi, so now he's more likely to commit a false positive due to paranoia. Good luck with that lawsuit.


In this case:

Woman: (Speaks Farsi)

Apple: Excuse me, but which language were you speaking?

Woman: "Farsi, I'm from Iran." (Direct quote)

Huh, it is pretty ambiguous where she is from.


Except for the fact that she is a US citizen.




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