Apple Launches AI News Alert Feature, Immediately Regrets It
January 20, 2025
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as posted by the channelApple immediately pulls its latest feature of AI-generated news alerts after outrageous headlines without facts and false accusations are spread. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Apple Pulls AIGenerated News Alerts After Wacky Headline ScrewUps
"Apple has temporarily pulled the plug on a recently launched artificial intelligence (AI) feature that churned out inaccurate summaries of news headlines from the BBC, Sky News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other media organizations. The iPhone maker’s service falsely created the headline that Luigi Mangione—the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—had shot himself. It also incorrectly told users that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested and that Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal had come out as gay. It even claimed Donald Trump had endorsed Kamala Harris’ 2024 Democratic running mate Tim Walz for president, according to the Post. A spokesperson for Apple told news outlets the company is “working on improvements and will make them available in a future software update.” The company came under intense scrutiny for the heavily marketed feature which butchered some news headlines, with Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler slamming it as “wildly irresponsible” in a rant on social media platform Bluesky this week."
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