While using Apple automatic dictation to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users reported that they saw a peculiar error: the word “racist” is temporarily appears as “Trump” before it was quickly corrected.
The Blip message, which was repeated several times by the New York Times, caused a dispute after appearing in a viral Tiktok position, creating questions about Apple’s artificial intelligence.
An Apple spokesman accused the issue of vocal coating between the two words and said the company was working on a solution.
The issue appeared to start after an update on Apple servers, said John Burkey, the founder of Wonderrush.ai, an artificial intelligence, and a former member of the Apple Siri team still in regular contact with the team.
But he said it was unlikely that Apple has gathered for artificial intelligence offers that caused the problem and the word correction was probably an indication that the issue was not just technical. Instead, he said, there was probably a code of software somewhere in Apple systems that caused the iPhones to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist”.
“This smells like a serious farce,” Mr Burkey said. “The only question is: Does anyone slide this into the data or slide in the code?”
The issue was the latest Stumble in Apple since the company introduced a new AI system last year called Apple Intelligence. Last month, the company said it would turn off one of the system’s signature capabilities: gathering and summarizing news alerts. He did so after the system that was inaccurately summarized by the new news reports by various media.
In 2018, Siri was the center of another political controversy when the voice assistant presented a naked image in response to the question: “Who is Donald Trump?” The error was linked to the publishers Rogue Wikipedia who had changed the source of Siri’s information.
The last issue began appearing on the phones a day after Apple said it would invest $ 500 billion in the United States over the next four years. The company said it would start manufacturing AI servers in a new 250,000 -square -foot installation in Houston next year.
The investment promise came after Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, met with President Trump last week and said the company would invest hundreds of billions of dollars. It was the last in a series of meetings between Mr Cook and Mr Trump. Mr Cook also gave $ 1 million to Mr Trump’s inauguration and was sitting on Dais during the swearing -in.
