While using Apple’s automatic dictation feature to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users told a strange mistake: “racist” temporarily appears as “Trump”, before quickly correcting itself.
The message series, which was repeated several times by the New York Times, provoked controversy after appearing in A. Viral tiktok After, ask questions about Apple’s artificial intelligence capabilities.
Apple spokeswoman blamed the problem in the phonetic overlap between the two words, and said that the company was working on repair.
John Burki, founder of Wonderrush.ai, a former Siri team at Apple, who is still in regular contact with the team, said that the case seems to start after updating Apple servers.
But he said that it is unlikely that the data collected by Apple for its artificial smart shows was causing the problem, and the word was probably correcting itself that the issue was not only a technique. Instead, he said, there may be a software symbol in the Apple systems that caused the writing of the iPhone to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist”.
“This smell is like a dangerous joke,” said Burkey. “The only question is: Does someone slide into data or slide into the code?”
The problem was the latest stumbling in Apple since the company presented a new system for Amnesty International last year called Apple Intelligence. Last month, the company said this It would disrupt one of the regime signing capabilities: Collecting and summarizing news notifications. He did this after the regime summarized news headlines from many media outlets.
In 2018, Siri was the center of another political controversy when the voice assistant showed a naked picture in response to the question: “Who is Donald Trump?” The error was linked to Rogue Wikipedia editors who changed Siri information.
The last issue began to appear on phones a day that Apple said it would invest $ 500 billion in the United States during the next four years. The company said it will start manufacturing artificial intelligence servers in a new facility of 250,000 square feet in Houston next year.
The investment promise came after Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, met President Trump last week and said that the company would invest hundreds of billions of dollars. He was The latest in a series of meetings Between Mr. Cook and Mr. Trump. Mr. Cook also donated a million dollars to install Mr. Trump and sat on Dais while performing the right.
