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Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump' (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apple says it is working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump."

The tech giant has suggested the issue with its Dictation service has been caused by a problem it has distinguishing between words with an "r" in them.

"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," an Apple spokesperson said.

However an expert in speech recognition told the BBC this explanation was "just not plausible."

Peter Bell, professor of speech technology at the University of Edinburgh, said it was more likely that someone had altered the underlying software that the tool used.

A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri told the New York Times: "This smells like a serious prank."

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 206 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Props to the intern that snuck that in.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 58 points 3 weeks ago

They need an award for getting that done.

[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Seems like autocorrect doing it's job!

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

Duck yeah it is

[–] colmear@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think autocorrect has some things mixed up. Not every rectangle is a square, but every square is a rectangle …

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Did an intern sneak that in or did the model itself decide to do that?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Models don't decide.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

No intern, it was St Luigi doing the gods work

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The AI is learning on its own.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The closest we've ever been to actual AGI.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I hope our digital children can learn to forgive us for the mess we left them.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 weeks ago

It pulls a synonym—what’s the big deal?

[–] elric@lemm.ee 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apple fixed it. It now autocorrects "rapist" to trump.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, can't have it be incomplete.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it ain't broken, don't fix it, stupid!

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it really is hard to explain to someone

Trump is very trump.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not Trump, but..

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Google Gemini

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there any combo with orange skin that would not give you Trump as an answer?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

"Orange skin and in a committed relationship with Bert" "orange skin that is removed before juicing"

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wanted to say Annoying Orange, but he is not a convict.

[–] pelley@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Good bot

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

I hope they just never fix it, just be like "yeah 🤷🏽it must be the R's???? We are working on it"

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

For once, SIRI got something right.

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I couldn't actually believe this article was real. Figured it was a comedic post like that previous one about switching to Cyrillic letters in the US .

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

They're the same picture

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

General intelligence has been achieved?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Seems accurate to me

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Why can‘t my autocorrect do a proper job like that but instead comes up with the trumpest Trump? That‘s so Trump. I hate it.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"AI generates a series of characters" is not news

[–] SamboT@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

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