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iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’ (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by felixwhynot@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 93 points 2 months ago (3 children)

An Apple spokeswoman blamed the issue on phonetic overlap between the two words, and said the company was working on a fix.

🤔

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This is such a funny lie, they aren't even the same number of syllables

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

she clearly has no idea how AI works

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Nor phonetics

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the fun side of Apple. Since they're a monoculture, they can't just blame a partner or vendor like every other tech company. Watching them squirm is delightful. So arrogant and closed-source.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

They should just flex and own this one

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Interesting how you managed to spin their accountability as a bad thing. It sounds like you prefer companies that refuse to squirm.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The company said it is working to fix the issue...

What issue? It sounds like it works perfectly fine.

[–] dneaves@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Based siri lolol

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago

Instead, he said, there was probably software code somewhere on Apple’s systems that caused iPhones to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist.”

“This smells like a serious prank,” Mr. Burkey said. “The only question is: Did someone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”

yeah, I wouldn't read too much into it guys

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Get Tim Apple on the phone.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Apple will comply and instead transcribe "winner" to "Trump" in order to curry favor with him. Just like they kowtow on the Gulf of Shame.

[–] eporetsky@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Not sure if this is relevant but would be interesting to see what words have high cosine similarity with "Trump" in different pre-trained LLMs

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not even mad... except for the NYT links without a paywall bypass link

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shared it from the gift articles comm, must be outta juice sry

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Use a archived version next time.

Clean, no ads, no silly restrictions.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

They are the same picture

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Rare Apple W