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.”
Seems accurate to me
If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it, stupid!
Well, it really is hard to explain to someone
Trump is very trump.
I’m not Trump, but…
General intelligence has been achieved?
For once, SIRI got something right.
It pulls a synonym—what’s the big deal?
Props to the intern that snuck that in.
Seems like autocorrect doing it’s job!
Duck yeah it is
I think autocorrect has some things mixed up. Not every rectangle is a square, but every square is a rectangle …
They need an award for getting that done.
Did an intern sneak that in or did the model itself decide to do that?
No intern, it was St Luigi doing the gods work
Models don’t decide.
The AI is learning on its own.
The closest we’ve ever been to actual AGI.
I hope our digital children can learn to forgive us for the mess we left them.
Is there any combo with orange skin that would not give you Trump as an answer?
“Orange skin and in a committed relationship with Bert” “orange skin that is removed before juicing”
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.
Apple fixed it. It now autocorrects “rapist” to trump.
Yeah, can’t have it be incomplete.
Good bot
They’re the same picture
I hope they just never fix it, just be like “yeah 🤷🏽it must be the R’s??? We are working on it”
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 .
