BBC Calls Out Apple's AI Feature for Creating More Fake News Headlines

Apple is once again under scrutiny after its AI-powered notification system generated false news summaries on Friday, including an erroneous claim about a darts player winning a championship and a fabricated story about tennis star Rafael Nadal.

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BBC News reported that Apple Intelligence incorrectly notified users that Luke Littler had won the PDC World Championship before the final match had even taken place. In a separate incident on the same day, the system falsely claimed that Rafael Nadal had come out as gay, misinterpreting a story about a Brazilian tennis player.

These latest mishaps follow previous concerns raised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which called for Apple to remove the AI summary feature last month after it generated misleading headlines about a high-profile murder case. The journalism organization warned that such AI-generated summaries pose "a danger to the public's right to reliable information."

The BBC has demanded urgent action from Apple, claiming that the recurring issue threatens the credibility of trusted news organizations. "It is essential that Apple fixes this problem urgently - as this has happened multiple times," a BBC spokesperson said.

Apple Intelligence is available on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 models, and select iPads and Macs running iOS 18.1 or later. Amongst other things, the AI features aim to simplify notification management by condensing multiple alerts into brief summaries. The feature includes a reporting mechanism for inaccurate summaries, but Apple has not publicly addressed the ongoing concerns or disclosed the number of reports it has received.

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cicalinarrot Avatar
10 months ago
That's what you get when you push useless AI features everywhere just for show.
Score: 75 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Gnik Nus Avatar
10 months ago
Just stop with that AI nonsense already! I'm so sick of every company in the world trying to push this so-called technology down our throats. We don't need another energy-guzzling gimmick from big tech. I don't see how this makes the world a better place. And by the way, there is no ‘intelligence’ in AI. It's just a statistical illusion. Just stop calling that nonsense ‘intelligence’.
Score: 58 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DELLsFan Avatar
10 months ago
If you think the truth about Tennis and Darts has been undermined, wait til they're done tweaking political algorithms.
Score: 26 Votes (Like | Disagree)
endemize Avatar
10 months ago

Just stop with that AI nonsense already! I'm so sick of every company in the world trying to push this so-called technology down our throats. We don't need another energy-guzzling gimmick from big tech. I don't see how this makes the world a better place. And by the way, there is no ‘intelligence’ in AI. It's just a statistical illusion. Just stop calling that nonsense ‘intelligence’.
Tell me you don’t use AI for work without telling me you don’t use AI for work. Hate it all you want, but it’s increasing productivity exponentially for those that are embracing it. Sure the gimmicky AI is one thing, but LLMs themselves are a game changer.
Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
BladeRunner95 Avatar
10 months ago
AI generated content is filling the internet with trash. All I see now are these AI generated images everywhere that look halfway between photographs and paintings, and AI generated answers that often stitch together unrelated information, just based on the keywords.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WarmWinterHat Avatar
10 months ago

Tell me you don’t use AI for work without telling me you don’t use AI for work. Hate it all you want, but it’s increasing productivity exponentially for those that are embracing it. Sure the gimmicky AI is one thing, but LLMs themselves are a game changer.
In some industries. My company (hospital) has blanket-banned us from using AI in our workflow. AI company-domains are network-blocked, and all the computers have copilot blocked. I just did our yearly training, and they emphasized it's still the policy for the upcoming year. Too much chance for leaking info and violating HIPAA.

I don't need the useless bloviation that LLMs provide; ML has uses, but I have zero need or want for a computer to talk to me in human-style language. Give me the info, concise, without chatter, and with sources. I have no use for it otherwise.

...and I don't have any use for Apple AI and it's failing attempts to make my life easier.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)