Apple temporarily suspends its news headline summary service after it was found to be failing. The technology company has made that decision after receiving the formal complaints from the BBC, to whom he attributed fanciful headlines that said that Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, committed suicide in prison, that Luke Littler had won the world darts championship while he was still in the semifinals or that “the Brazilian tennis player” Rafael Nadal had left the cupboard.
The British corporation had to publish denials. Meanwhile, the technology company said that it was working on a software change and that it would stand out more obviously than when the notifications that reach iPhones are summaries created by Apple Intelligence, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool.
The Apple system also launched an alert on November 21 of an alleged news of The New York Times according to which the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, had been arrested. On December 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) formally submitted a petition for Apple to remove its AI-based news summaries. Vincent Berthier, head of RSF’s technology and journalism office, declared at the time that “the automated production of false information attributed to a media outlet is a blow to its credibility.” This, he added, represents “a danger to the public’s right to receive reliable information on current affairs.”
“Notification summaries for the News and Entertainment category will be temporarily out of service,” Apple said in a statement. “We are working on improvements and they will be available again with a future software update.”
The aforementioned system summarized news notifications from the media chosen by the user and united them into a single alert that was displayed on the iPhone screen. “We are delighted that Apple has addressed our concerns and paused its headline summary service,” a BBC spokesperson said in a statement. collected byGuardian.
