Apple has canceled its “Apple Intelligence AI” news feature for making up stories and twisting real headlines into fiction.
Apple’s AI-powered News is supposed to make life easier by summarizing news alerts from multiple sources. Instead, it creates chaos by publishing fake news, often under trusted media brands.
This is where everything goes wrong:
- Using the BBC logo, invented a story Claims that tennis star Rafael Nadal came out as gay completely misunderstand the story about the Brazilian player.
- It announced early that teenage darts player Luke Littler had won the PDC World Championship – before he competed in the final.
- In a more serious mistake, it created a false BBC alert claiming that Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, had committed suicide.
- The system printed the name of the New York Times on a piece of paper Completely made up story News about the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The BBC was outraged to see its name included in the false reports and eventually lodged a formal complaint. Media groups have also joined in, e.g. Reporters Without Borderswho warned that letting AI rewrite the news would put the public’s right to accurate information at risk.
this national union of journalists There have also been calls for the feature to be removed, saying readers should not have to guess whether what they are reading is true.
Research It has previously been shown that even if people know that AI-created media is fake, it can still leave a psychological “imprint” that persists.
apple intelligence It provides a series of artificial intelligence functions, including artificial intelligence news, and is one of the main functions of the new iPhone 16 series.
Apple is a company that prides itself on making beautiful products that “just work”—and Apple rarely goes back—so they clearly have no choice.
That said, they’re not alone when it comes to AI missteps. Not long ago, Google’s AI-generated search snippets told people they could eat rocks Apply glue to pizza.
Apple plans to bring back the feature with warning labels and special formatting to show up when artificial intelligence creates summaries.
Should readers decode different fonts and tags to know if they are reading real news? This is a radical idea – could they continue to show the news headlines themselves?
This all goes to show that as artificial intelligence continues to permeate every corner of our digital lives, some things — like receiving accurate news facts — are just too important to get wrong.
A big move from Apple, but it probably won’t be the last we see of this type of product.
