This story has been running for a while in the UK: Apple’s summarisation of notifications has been presenting inaccurate representations of news headlines, still branded with the news organisation’s logo. Sometimes the meaning has been changed completely.
Journalists have asked for the service to be withdrawn until the issues are fixed.
The BBC complained last month after an AI-generated summary of its headline falsely told some readers that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself. Apple’s AI inaccurately summarised BBC app notifications to claim that Luke Littler had won the PDC World Darts Championship hours before it began - and that the Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.
I have to agree with Jason Snell, “Apple is shipping these AI-based features rapidly, and marketing them heavily, because it fears that its competitors so far out in front that it’s a potentially existential issue.”
Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines.
“This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of Washington Post news alerts,” the newspaper’s tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler wrote. “It’s wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn’t turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.”
It wasn’t all fun though, as one day it make me believe my football team had lost, so I didn’t watch the game and was in a foul mood for a while. I found out a few days later we’d won so I didn’t have any reason to be down, and I thoroughly enjoyed the replay!! Not the end of the world though, and not much different from other AI - I see hallucinations from ChatGPT and Claude all the time.
The difference being that when you’re on ChatGPT it’s obvious you’re using ChatGPT. Apple was presenting blatantly incorrect headlines along with the news organisation’s logo. If the notifications had appeared with “Apple Intelligence Summary - check accuracy” and an Apple logo, it might have been different.
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