Following a series of obviously false summary of the headline Fierce backlash from journalists and newsrooms; apple paused AI generated News summary push notifications…for now.
“With the latest beta software releases for iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, notification summaries in the News & Entertainment category will be temporarily unavailable,” an Apple spokesperson told Mashable in an email.
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Apple Intelligence features introduced in 2024. iOS18.2and Released in the UK on December 11thwas supposed to summarize news headlines with short press alerts. These are delivered to Apple devices compatible with iOS 18.1 or later, including the latest version. iPhone 16 and 16 Plus.
In December, BBC News It accused Apple’s AI of sending false push notifications due to media reports. Luigi MangioneHe was arrested on suspicion of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who died by suicide. Apple’s only incorrect BBC News headline summary wasn’t, Nor was it the only publisher. represented by Inaccurate news summaries generated by Apple AI.
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Apple reportedly did not respond to the BBC’s complaint until January. As reported by the pressthe company said it was “working to make it clear that the summaries were generated by AI.”
In January, National Union of Journalists and journalism organizations Reporters Without Borders Apple publicly called for the removal of the Generated AI feature, with the latter criticizing the “inability of AI systems to systematically publish high-quality information, even when based on journalistic sources.”
On Thursday, an Apple spokesperson said: told the BBC “We are working on improvements and will make them available in a future software update,” the company said in a statement.
As MacRumors points outApple has updated the Notification Summary feature in the Settings app with a warning that the feature “may contain errors.” You’ll also still see a summary of notifications that aren’t in the News and Entertainment category, but they’ll now appear in italics.
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