Apple suspends AI news digest after communications

Apple has paused one of the functions of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform after numerous bugs and even criticism from media outlets. The source in question is News summary from a single notification on mobile phones.

Including work from Apple Intelligence Condense an entire news story into a sentence of just a few words to reduce text size as much as possible and make multiple headers fit into a single notification.

In this way, the user receives a range of information simultaneously from the same tool, choosing whether to click or read the content at that moment.

The problem is The Maça platform made a number of mistakes when interpreting the news and in some cases made up facts – what is called “hallucination” in the field of artificial intelligence. Media companies and regulators such as the BBC have complained about failures, citing misinformation as one of the consequences of such uncontrolled behavior.

British BBC Following the notification from the company about the news published on the portal, a complaint was made to Apple. The company’s artificial intelligence mistakenly wrote that Luigi Mangione, the murderer of the CEO of a US health insurance company, committed suicide. According to BBC, Such malfunctions damage the reliability of the vehicle..

North American newspaper New York Times Appeared in notifications in 2024 Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu reported arrested – This is also something that did not happen.

There were no errors in the other threads outlined in the same message and At no point did Spade itself alert the user that the texts were incorrect.

Apple updates app to recognize limitations

The UK’s National Union of Journalists criticized Apple in a statement and called for the source to be removed. According to the group, the current period “Where achieving accurate reporting has never been more important“Public opinion is needed”“There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the news received.”.

Apple notification summary feature has been temporarily suspended In the latest update of operating systems which is the Beta version of iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3.

He also confirmed that: will make improvements to the system and make it available again at a later date not detailed.

Also company Updated a warning text for the same Apple Intelligence functionality in older systems. When configuring summary notifications at startup, Apple now claims: “summaries may contain errors” and it is possible for them to bringmisrepresentations of original content“.