Apple has promised to correct a bug in its iphone The automatic dictation tool after some users reported that they suggested “Trump” to them when they said the word “racist”.
The problem was first highlighted in a Post viral on tiktokWhen the text speech tool has sometimes briefly enlightened the word “Trump” when they said “racist”, and were then repeated by others on social networks.
“We are aware of a problem with the voice recognition model that feeds the dictation and we deploy a correction”, Apple said the spokesperson.
The company blamed the bug on its tool displaying words which have a “phonetic overlap” before the “planned word” was identified, which in this case included words with the “R” consonant.
However, the problem has caused indignation among certain conservative commentators in the United States, who have Long accused of large technological companies in political bias against those on the right.
The bug has also questioned Apple’s artificial intelligence capacities, only one day after the company announced a Investment of $ 500 billion (395 billion pounds sterling) in the United StatesWidely interpreted as a decision designed to appeal to the government of Donald Trump.
The technological company said on Monday that investment, in progress over the next four years, would include a giant factory in Texas for artificial intelligence servers and would create around 20,000 research and development jobs across the country.
AI’s announcement only occurred a few days after Apple Managing Director Tim Cook has met Trump. The company could face 10% tariffs on its devices, many of which are assembled in China before being imported into the United States.
The manufacturer of the iPhone managed to guarantee derogations from the prices taken from China during Trump’s first term.
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