Apple’s artificial intelligence Apple Intelligence was advertised as a feature of the iPhone 16. However, the new generation of iPhone did not receive it at launch, and the service added later yields dubious results.
Inappropriate and often comical outcomes prompted criticism from journalists, including the organization “Reporters Without Borders” and the BBC. For example, Apple Intelligence recently falsely reported that Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Bryan Thompson, had shot himself. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was mistakenly declared arrested.
This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of @washingtonpost.com news alerts.
It’s wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn’t turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.
— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler.bsky.social) January 15, 2025, at 20:15
In response, Apple has suspended AI news summaries in the next beta version of iOS. In previous developer versions of Apple iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, summaries are disabled, with no option to enable them in “Settings”. However, it appears that the update disables this feature only for media. It’s unclear how this will affect publications on social networks, which often serve as a news source.
Apple explained that Apple Intelligence is still in beta. The company plans to add labels to AI summaries in a few weeks, indicating that the summary is AI-generated. Additionally, Apple Intelligence summaries will be highlighted in italics going forward. The response is somewhat strange, as no corrections to Apple’s AI operation have been reported yet.
Source: Notebookcheck