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While using Apple's automatic dictation function to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users reported having seen a peculiar error: the word “racist” that temporarily appears as “Trump”, before correcting quickly.
The message message, which was replicated several times by the New York Times, caused controversy after appearing in a Viral Tiktok Publish, ask questions about Apple's artificial intelligence capabilities.
An Apple spokeswoman blamed the problem of phonetic overlap between the two words, and said the company was working on a solution.
The problem seemed to start after an update of Apple's servers, said John Burkey, the founder of Wonderrush.ai, an artificial intelligence company and a former Member of the Siri Apple team who is still in regular contact with the team.
But he said that it was unlikely that the data that Apple has collected for its artificial intelligence offers was causing the problem, and that the word correction itself was an indication that the problem was not only technical. Instead, he said, there was probably software code somewhere in Apple's systems that made the iPhones write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist.”
“This smells like a serious joke,” Burkey said. “The only question is: did anyone get this into the data or slid in the code?”
The problem was the last stumbling block since the company presented a new ai system last year called Apple Intelligence. Last month, the company said it would disable one of the exclusive capabilities of the system: add and summarize news notifications. He did it after the system inaccurately summed up the news headlines of various media.
In 2018, Siri was the center of another political controversy when the voice assistant showed a naked image in response to the question: “Who is Donald Trump?” The error was linked to the editors of Wikipedia Rogue who had changed the source of Siri's information.
The last problem began to appear on phones one day after Apple said it would invest $ 500 billion in the United States in the next four years. The company said it would begin to make ai servers in a new installation of 250,000 square feet in Houston next year.
The investment promise occurred after Tim Cook, Apple's executive director, met with President Trump last week and said the company would invest hundreds of billions of dollars. It was the last of a series of meetings between Mr. Cook and Mr. Trump. Cook also donated $ 1 million to the inauguration of Mr. Trump and sat on the stretch during the sworn.
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