Apple is walking back on its AI-generated summaries feature, Apple Intelligence, in a rare public blunder for the $3.5 trillion tech corporation led by Tim Cook.
The AI-generated feature, meant to offer quick summaries of text messages and news alerts, was temporarily disabled in a Thursday software update. While inaccurate summaries of personal text messages were inconsequential, fictitious news alerts had the potential to do real harm, the Washington Post report.
In one instance, WaPo reported a news alert stated President-elect Donald Trump had endorsed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for president. Another claimed Pete Hegseth was fired while Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio were confirmed to their cabinet positions under the Trump administration.
The BBC reportedly reached out to Apple to rectify the issue after users received alerts asserting that Luigi Mangione had shot himself and that former tennis champion Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.
Apple expects to drop a new software update that addresses the issue by notifying users that summaries, which the WaPo reported will be italicized to differentiate them from other news alerts, may be mistaken. Users will also have the ability to opt in to the Apple Intelligence feature.
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