US EditionApple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines
- Apple is temporarily pulling its AI-generated news notifications after generating misleading headlines, leading to backlash from news organizations and press freedom groups.
- The company plans to disable the AI feature for news and entertainment headlines while improving its accuracy before re-enabling it in a future update.
- The BBC complained about false summaries, including one that incorrectly stated Luigi Mangione shot himself, which was not true.
- A BBC spokesperson expressed satisfaction that Apple is pausing the feature and emphasized the importance of news accuracy for maintaining trust.
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The experiment wanted by Apple to summarize the news in a single notification seems to have not really worked. In fact, there were numerous errors found in the summaries created by Apple Intelligence, the artificial intelligence that has been integrated into the company's devices operating in the United States since October. A news container, in essence, proposed to users through “smart” notifications, packaged by AI, to reduce the number of ale…
Apple suspends iPhone AI news summaries due to errors
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple pushed out a software update on Thursday (Jan 16) that disabled news headlines and summaries generated using artificial intelligence that were lambasted for getting facts wrong. The move by the tech titan comes as it enhances its latest lineup of devices with "Apple Intelligence" in a
Apple AI-Generated News Alert System Pulled for Literally Creating Fake News
I’m shocked. Shocked, I say, that AI—a technology built upon Hoovering up the detritus of poorly vetted, poorly written verbal diarrhea that populates much of the internet and regurgitating it into language as dull as a warning label on a hand dryer—would do this to us. Well, surprised. Maybe taken aback would be the right word? Or maybe, just maybe, I’d say that Apple should’ve been able to see this coming a mile away, and that if they somehow …
Apple Pulls Its AI News-Summary Tool After Major Errors
Apple is yanking one of its first Apple Intelligence features to roll out, the one that summarizes news headlines from various sources to turn them into push notifications, which have turned out to be sometimes wildly false.If you were one of those Apple users who opted in to Apple Intelligence news summaries, you may have seen headlines in the last month that said things like "Luigi Mangione shoots himself" and "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
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