BBC Calls Out Apple's AI Feature for Creating More Fake News Headlines

[MacRumors]

Apple is once again under scrutiny after its AI-powered notification system generated false news summaries on Friday, including an erroneous claim about a darts player winning a championship and a fabricated story about tennis star Rafael Nadal.

BBC News reported that Apple Intelligence incorrectly notified users that Luke Littler had won the PDC World Championship before the final match had even taken place. In a separate incident on the same day, the system falsely claimed that Rafael Nadal had come out as gay, misinterpreting a story about a Brazilian tennis player.

These latest mishaps follow previous concerns raised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which called for Apple to remove the AI summary feature last month after it generated misleading headlines about a high-profile murder case. The journalism organization warned that such AI-generated summaries pose "a danger to the public's right to reliable information."

The BBC has demanded urgent action from Apple, claiming that the recurring issue threatens the credibility of trusted news organizations. "It is essential that Apple fixes this problem urgently - as this has happened multiple times," a BBC spokesperson said.

• iOS Notification Summaries Lost in Translation? How to Turn Them Off

Apple Intelligence is available on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 models, and select iPads and Macs running iOS 18.1 or later. Amongst other things, the AI features aim to simplify notification management by condensing multiple alerts into brief summaries. The feature includes a reporting mechanism for inaccurate summaries, but Apple has not publicly addressed the ongoing concerns or disclosed the number of reports it has received.

Article Link: BBC Calls Out Apple's AI Feature for Creating More Fake News Headlines

 

[cicalinarrot]

That's what you get when you push useless AI features everywhere just for show.

 

[DELLsFan]

If you think the truth about Tennis and Darts has been undermined, wait til they're done tweaking political algorithms.

 

[MGrayson3]

Pot -> Kettle

 

[dannys1]

He did win it though, it's just so advanced it was tell you early 😂

Seriously though, turn it off for app summary.

 

[Gnik Nus]

Just stop with that AI nonsense already! I'm so sick of every company in the world trying to push this so-called technology down our throats. We don't need another energy-guzzling gimmick from big tech. I don't see how this makes the world a better place. And by the way, there is no ‘intelligence’ in AI. It's just a statistical illusion. Just stop calling that nonsense ‘intelligence’.

 

[Delgibbons]

Just stop with that AI nonsense already! I'm so sick of every company in the world trying to push this so-called technology down our throats. We don't need another energy-guzzling gimmick from big tech. I don't see how this makes the world a better place. And by the way, there is no ‘intelligence’ in AI. It's just a statistical illusion. Just stop calling that nonsense ‘intelligence’.

Yeah I'm sick of every company jumping on it like its some miracle.

Some cool use cases for masking in video/3d conversion/upscaling (as long as it doesn't make the image look too blacmange like)

Generally, it's just a bit ****.

 

[iFunk]

I feel like now is the time for Apple to seize the moment ... "Now you're playing with power... Apple Intelligence power!"

 

[endemize]

Just stop with that AI nonsense already! I'm so sick of every company in the world trying to push this so-called technology down our throats. We don't need another energy-guzzling gimmick from big tech. I don't see how this makes the world a better place. And by the way, there is no ‘intelligence’ in AI. It's just a statistical illusion. Just stop calling that nonsense ‘intelligence’.

Tell me you don’t use AI for work without telling me you don’t use AI for work. Hate it all you want, but it’s increasing productivity exponentially for those that are embracing it. Sure the gimmicky AI is one thing, but LLMs themselves are a game changer.

 

[The Game 161]

But he did win lol

 

[BladeRunner95]

AI generated content is filling the internet with trash. All I see now are these AI generated images everywhere that look halfway between photographs and paintings, and AI generated answers that often stitch together unrelated information, just based on the keywords.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

They need to just pull this feature.

 

[kirky29]

Some of them just make me laugh, like this one with... there is no mention of fish..... anywhere in the entire history of the conversions 🤣

 

[Silverado]

The feature is far from useless. I think summarization is one of the killer uses of AI. I hope they focus on fixing/improving the feature rather than taking it away.

 

[zombierunner]

The irony.

 

[DBZmusicboy01]

AI is not only dangerous but very inaccurate in many different ways.

 

[SanderEvers]

AI is not only dangerous but very inaccurate in many different ways.

AI is not really dangerous. Just inaccurate. Which can be dangerous if people act on that.

 

[spunkybart]

I wish that I could turn off individual features and save space. For example, I don't have any use for the summarizations (even if they worked) nor the writing tools.

 

[211]

As always, this is a rushed feature from Apple, just to jump on the AI bandwagon. Apple really needs to focus on its software instead of leaving them languishing. Nearly every app it has it's a "here you go, we've released this app/service and now we won't touch it ever again because we're working on more apps/services that we'll ignore after they have been released."

The only times Apple will revisit is if there is a public outcry (Maps, Music, etc.). What happened to constantly perfecting the experience, rather than being forced to?

 

[infinitedreams]

It even gets Apple news wrong…

 

[Silverado]

Yes, there is way too much of companies tripping over themselves just to use AI wherever and whenever, or even to just say that they do. And there are indeed miss-applications and silly uses of the technology.

But to say that AI is trash and has no value is missing a huge tectonic shift.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Tell me you don’t use AI for work without telling me you don’t use AI for work. Hate it all you want, but it’s increasing productivity exponentially for those that are embracing it. Sure the gimmicky AI is one thing, but LLMs themselves are a game changer.

In some industries. My company (hospital) has blanket-banned us from using AI in our workflow. AI company-domains are network-blocked, and all the computers have copilot blocked. I just did our yearly training, and they emphasized it's still the policy for the upcoming year. Too much chance for leaking info and violating HIPAA.

I don't need the useless bloviation that LLMs provide; ML has uses, but I have zero need or want for a computer to talk to me in human-style language. Give me the info, concise, without chatter, and with sources. I have no use for it otherwise.

...and I don't have any use for Apple AI and it's failing attempts to make my life easier.

 

[cjsuk]

Yes, there is way too much of companies tripping over themselves just to use AI wherever and whenever, or even to just say that they do. And there are indeed miss-applications and silly uses of the technology.

But to say that AI is trash and has no value is missing a huge tectonic shift.

LLMs are complete trash with no viability in the short or long term.

Some of the traditional ML stuff is useful (classifiers etc).

That's where it is.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I wish that I could turn off individual features and save space. For example, I don't have any use for the summarizations (even if they worked) nor the writing tools.

You can, through Settings.

 

[I7guy]

I’m liking the summarization feature. AI is not going away and will eventually be part of our fabric. Apple intelligence is not going away. And I look forward to seeing how apple intelligence evolves. And all of this will improve. Fake news by the BBC I say.