Apple Intelligence notification summaries are, in my view, one of the early killer AI features. But they’re not without their flaws, as the BBC has continued highlighting via several new examples today. Here are the latest Apple Intelligence errors with news alerts.
Last month, the BBC publicly aired its grievances with Apple over its new AI notification summary feature.
Added in iOS 18.1, the feature allows Apple Intelligence to summarize a notification’s info rather than providing the actual content as written.
Apple Intelligence is currently available in beta, so Apple says you should expect mistakes and report them so the system can continually be improved.
The BBC is taking that message to heart. The December example involved AI claiming, via a summarized BBC News alert, that Luigi Mangione had shot himself. This was entirely untrue.
Now today, the BBC’s Imran Rahman-Jones has published several more examples of Apple Intelligence errors its users have reported (via AppleInsider).
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