The BBC complains to Apple on information generated by Inacts in summaries of information applications, increasing the risk of disinformation
THE Bbc complained to Apple concerning a notification of the new technology AP of Apple’s intelligence of the company which generated a false title.
The characteristic of the AI, which summarizes the notifications of mobile applications, displayed a summary indicating that Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested following the murder of the Director General of Health Insurance, Brian Thompson, had shot, this who is false.
The BBC said it had contacted Apple “to raise this concern and solve the problem”. He said Apple had refused to comment.
“It is essential for us that our audience can trust any information or journalism published on our behalf and which includes notifications,” the company said in a press release.
Risk of disinformation
The problem is a new example of inaccurate information generated by AI technologies which are quickly deployed for broad public use by technological companies, in particular Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Apple’s point of view on technology, which has been published for new iphones, iPads and Mac, has already been criticized to generate email summaries or other notifications that can be inscribable, bizarre or incorrect.
The problem is more visible when applied to notifications for information applications.
One of the AIs presents groups of groups together from a particular application and summarizes the content of each of them, in order to reduce distraction.
In the case referenced by the BBC, the notification generated by the Ai-resume with precision two other titles.
In a similar issue, on November 21, three titles of The New York Times were gathered, the summary generated by the AI indicating one of them concerned the “arrest” of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Inaccurate titles
In reality, the title said that the International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
This error was highlighted on the Bluesky social media platform by a journalist with the propuplica investigation journalism site, the BBC said.
In May, after Google launched AI summaries Among the research results, users found that summaries were often bizarre or incorrect.
Google temporary The deployment of functionality shortly after, before resumption Its deployment later in the year.