Apple has interrupted its artificial intelligence tool (AI) which sums up the headlines after a certain number of errors aroused complaints from press organizations and activists.
Thursday, the technology giant published an update of beta software to developers who disabled AI functionality for news and entertainment titles – an update that will eventually reach all users – and said it worked on improvements for the tool.
Functionality is part of the iPhone Maker’s Apple Intelligence Tools it launched at the end of last year – the first major stages of the company in generative AI technology, which has become the largest trend in industry in the past two years since the launch of the Openai Chatgpt.
According to the technology industry website MacrumorsApple has temporarily disabled the tool for news and entertainment categories while operating on improvements, but plans to bring them back to a future software update.
In addition, its report indicates Apple Added a warning under the notification summary switch to the Settings Application which warns users that it is a beta functionality and that “summaries may contain errors”.
The objective of the summary tool of the notification was to group a chain of notification of individual applications in a single fast alert and the size of a bite to help users save time.
However, a number of press organizations have raised concerns or complained directly to Apple, because the tool was launched after a certain number of incidents where he created false titles during the attempted summary of reports.
Many had also urged the technology giant to suspend its use of functionality, and a number of press freedom groups also talked about the tool, warning that it was a risk for people who try to look for reliable information.
In December, the BBC complained to Apple about the tool after having created a number of false titles based on BBC News application alerts, one of which declared that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of having killed the director general of Unitedhealth, Brian Thompson, had shot.
In response to this complaint, Apple told the BBC earlier this month that an Apple Intelligence update would be deployed “in the coming weeks”, and also noted that the use of the summary function was optional.
Apple did not respond to a request for comments.