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6mo ago

iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’

www.nytimes.com

Apple’s Dictation System Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18840134

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silence7 @slrpnk.net

6mo ago

iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’

www.nytimes.com /2025/02/25/technology/iphone-dictation-trump-racist.html

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An Apple spokeswoman blamed the issue on phonetic overlap between the two words, and said the company was working on a fix.
🤔
- This is such a funny lie, they aren't even the same number of syllables
- she clearly has no idea how AI works
  
  Nor phonetics
- They should just flex and own this one
- Interesting how you managed to spin their accountability as a bad thing. It sounds like you prefer companies that refuse to squirm.
Instead, he said, there was probably software code somewhere on Apple’s systems that caused iPhones to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist.”
“This smells like a serious prank,” Mr. Burkey said. “The only question is: Did someone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”
yeah, I wouldn't read too much into it guys
Based siri lolol
Get Tim Apple on the phone.
Apple will comply and instead transcribe "winner" to "Trump" in order to curry favor with him. Just like they kowtow on the Gulf of Shame.
Not sure if this is relevant but would be interesting to see what words have high cosine similarity with "Trump" in different pre-trained LLMs
I'm not even mad... except for the NYT links without a paywall bypass link
- Shared it from the gift articles comm, must be outta juice sry
  
  Use a archived version next time.
  Clean, no ads, no silly restrictions.
They are the same picture
Rare Apple W

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