Apple hastily launched Apple Intelligence, but has already encountered serious errors due to system misjudgment. Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health, who has been in the spotlight in the US, still has the suspect who was lynched and shot in custody, yet Apple Intelligence incorrectly generated a news headline claiming that the suspect Luigi Mangione had committed suicide by gunshot. The British BBC news channel has lodged a serious protest with Apple, demanding the cancellation of the generative AI automatic news headline creation feature. So far, Apple has not commented.
Apple Intelligence incorrectly generated news headlines.
The occurrence of this error began when Apple Intelligence automatically generated news push notifications through artificial intelligence, creating short news summaries based on users' preferred news articles and sending them to users' Apple phones. This new feature aims to prevent customers from receiving excessive news push notifications, allowing them to receive grouped news headlines and summaries. This feature is available for users on iOS version 18.1 and above, including all iPhone 16 models, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Max, and can also be used on iPads and Macs.
Reporters Without Borders calls for the cancellation of Apple Intelligence.
Apple Intelligence was launched in the UK last week, and the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned that Apple's generative artificial intelligence technology is still immature, calling on Apple to cancel these features to avoid further misleading fake news disrupting public perception.
RSF expressed serious concerns about the risks that artificial intelligence tools pose to the media. The organization stated that the BBC incident proves that generative artificial intelligence services are still too immature to provide reliable information to the public.
Vincent Berthier, head of technology and news at RSF, stated that artificial intelligence operates through probabilities and should not determine news facts through methods like rolling dice.
Reporters Without Borders urges Apple to take responsibility and delete this feature. Media organizations generating fake news automatically not only undermines public trust in news media but also threatens the public's right to access reliable current affairs news.
The New York Times was also incorrectly judged by AI, generating an inaccurate news headline.
BBC is not the only news media victim. On November 21, the New York Times wrote about the Israeli Prime Minister being issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, but Apple Intelligence incorrectly generated news headlines and summaries claiming the Israeli Prime Minister had been arrested.
According to reports, Apple Intelligence will also generate news summaries from emails and text messages, which are also very inaccurate.
This article reports that Apple AI incorrectly generated a news headline about the suspect in the United Health case committing suicide, with the BBC issuing a formal protest. The article first appeared in Chain News ABMedia.