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Apple Intelligence garbles a BBC headline
An AI summary puts false news under a broadcaster’s name, and Apple pauses it
Key facts
- Date
- 13 Dec 2024
- Era
- The model wars
- Interest
- Culture
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- False summary
- “Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office.”
- BBC
- Contacted Apple “to raise this concern and fix the problem”
- Pause
- 16 Jan 2025, news and entertainment apps, iOS 18.3 beta
Days after Apple Intelligence launched in the UK, a notification summary, an AI-written digest of BBC News alerts, read “Luigi Mangione shoots himself”, which was false. The BBC complained to Apple. On 16 January 2025 Apple turned off summaries for news and entertainment apps in the iOS 18.3 beta and began showing summaries in italics.
Sources
- BBC News, BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline, 2024-12-13
- 9to5Mac, Apple Intelligence botched a notification summary about Luigi Mangione, and the BBC isn't happy, 2024-12-13
- TechCrunch, Apple pauses AI notification summaries for news after generating false alerts, 2025-01-16