Apple Pulls AI-Generated Notifications For News After Generating Fake Headlines

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent users error-filled headlines, sparking backlash from a news organization and press freedom groups. The rare reversal from the iPhone maker on its heavily marketed Apple Intelligence feature comes after the technology produced misleading or altogether false summaries of news headlines that appear almost identical to regular push notifications.

On Thursday, Apple deployed a beta software update to developers that disabled the AI feature for news and entertainment headlines, which it plans to later roll out to all users while it works to improve the AI feature. The company plans to re-enable the feature in a future update. As part of the update, the company said the Apple Intelligence summaries, which users must opt into, will more explicitly emphasize that the information has been produced by AI, signaling that it may sometimes produce inaccurate results.

What happened to prototyping and testing?

[ozmartian]

Why rush these things out to producytiob before you are even aware of the results?

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[Rinnon]

This is what happens when you drink your own kool-aid.

Re: What happened to prototyping and testing?

[paul_engr]

If you test, people can rightfully tell you that your shit sucks. Remember, Apple is a cult. Cult leaders don't like pesky shit like factual, observable reality getting in the way of the farting anus on a big movie screen. Laugh at that farting asshole, you stupid fuck, then tell your friends about it on iMessage.

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[gweihir]

Simple: These "features" are known to be broken and there is no known way to fix that. Hence you can either deploy in a broken state or you cannot deploy. They clearly decided to deploy for marketing and political reasons and they badly misestimated how broken LLMs actually are.

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[Fly Swatter]

It's dead, Jim.

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[mjwx]

Why rush these things out to producytiob before you are even aware of the results?

Same thing that happened to proof reading... I keed, I keed.

Apple are known for sniffing their own farts a little too much. Releasing a product that doesn't work then blaming the user for "holding it wrong". They're just not able to get away with claiming the BBC was "holding" it's headlines wrong when Apple made a hash of it these days.

What's the problem?

[Black Parrot]

Don't they know fake news is what everyone wants these days?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Joke's on them, it's the fascist pigs who voted for the convict/rapist/pedophile/traitor who lap up the fake news, they don't buy Apple products.

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[taustin]

Since the fascist pigs outnumber you by enough to win control of the White House and both houses of Congress, I'd say you're the freak of nature.

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[gweihir]

Soo, evil becomes ok if enough people do it?

Solution

[Dan East]

The solution to AI hallucinations: a disclaimer that AI produced it.
If an actual news organization published a false headline they'd potentially be sued into oblivion.

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[gweihir]

That really depends. Stock manipulation, causing panic, causing civil unrest, etc. are all illegal and your only possible defense is that you were _not_ lying.