In December , the BBCcomplainedwhen Apple Intelligence auto - summarized one of its articles as part of a notification and wholly altered its meaning , falsely inform reviewer that the alleged killer Luigi Mangione had shoot himself .
“ BBC News is the most trust news media in the world , ” a BBC representative said at the time . “ It is essential to us that our audience can believe any entropy or journalism published in our name and that includes notifications . ”
But Apple seemingly did not respond to the complaint and more errors followed . In January the company ’s AI summarized a BBC clause about the World Darts Championship to say that Luke Littler had won the competition , when it had n’t even started . ( Funnily enough Littlerdidgo on to become the youngest ever winner , but not until afterwards . ) It also incorrectly claim Rafael Nadal had make out out as gay when he had not , again presenting this information as if it come up from the BBC .
The rest of the summary is accurate, but the first clause is wholly false.
While the BBC appear to be the main sufferer of Apple Intelligence ’s inaccuracies , a New York Times alert wasreportedlytwisted to hint Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested ; he had not .
Apple has not apologised for the computer error , nor has it even explicitly admitted that the AI get these thing untimely . But the company has this week acknowledged that Apple Intelligence ’s sum-up can be improved , and promise that animminent software system updatewill do so .
“ Apple Intelligence feature are in beta and we are continuously making improvements with the assist of exploiter feedback , ” the company said . “ A software update in the come weeks will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarisation provide by Apple Intelligence . We encourage users to report a business organization if they view an unexpected notification summary . ”
The rest of the summary is accurate, but the first clause is wholly false.
At the moment , the notification are pose as if they come directly from the news show beginning . At the top they say BBC News ( or NYTimes , or whatever ) , with the official app logotype on the left ; nowhere does it say that the text has been autogenerated by Apple Intelligence rather than being supply by the app . It would seem that Apple is promising only to label the text more instructively , rather than to make it more accurate … although one would hope that exploit on the latter view is on-going as a matter of function .
For more on this story , and the limitations of AI more generally , read the Macalope ’s late column , Apple Intelligence did n’t publish this headline .
