San Francisco – While using Apple’s automatic dictation function to send messages on February 25, some iPhone users said they saw a particular bug: the word “racist” appearing temporarily as “trump”, before Correct quickly.
The message message, which has been reproduced several times by the New York Times, caused controversy after appearing in a viral Tiktok article, raising questions about Apple’s artificial intelligence capacities (AI).
Apple spokesperson blamed the problem of phonetic overlap between the two words and said that the company was working on a fix.
The problem seemed to begin after an update of Apple’s servers, said John Burkey, founder of the start-up of Wonderrush.ai, and a former member of the Siri team of Apple who is Always in regular contact with the team.
But he said it was unlikely that the data that Apple has collected for his IA offers caused the problem and that the word correcting itself was probably an indication that the problem was not only technical. Instead, he said, there was probably software code somewhere on Apple’s systems that led iphones to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist”.
“It feels a serious farce,” said Burkey. “The only question is: Did anyone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”
The problem was the last trip in Apple since the company introduced a new AI system in 2024 called Apple Intelligence. In January, the company said it would deactivate one of the system signature capacities: aggregate and summarize news notifications. He did it after the system has in an inaccurate way the titles of the news of several media.
In 2018, Siri was the center of another political controversy when the voice assistant displayed a naked image in response to the question: “Who is Donald Trump?” The bug was linked to the Wikipedia thugs publishers who had changed the source of Siri’s information.
The last issue began to appear on phones one day after Apple said he Invest 500 billion US dollars ($ 669 billion) in the United States Over the next four years. The company said that it would start making AI servers in a new installation of 250,000 square feet in Houston 2026.
The investment promise intervened after Apple CEO Tim Cook met President Donald Trump last week and said the company would invest hundreds of billions of dollars. He was the last in a series of meetings between Mr. Cook and Mr. Trump. Mr. Cook also donated US $ 1 million to the inauguration of Trump and sat on the platform during the Escure. Nytimes
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