The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant’s new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United States.

A zoomed in iPhone screenshot of the misleading BBC notification

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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    How can Apple even fix this?
    Genuine question, what can they even do other than adding a new prompt saying “don’t mislead the user when summarizing the news pretty please 🥺”

    • vrighter
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      they can realize that these forms of ai are simply impossible to make work reliably. And the public needs to realize that 99% accuracy is not good enough.

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    So that’s the story they’re going with then he winds up dead aye?

    Publishers were a little to early when the CIA handed them the file

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    This doesn’t sound like an accident.

    Also, if I was BBC, I would sue. That’s damages.