Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
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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."
I hope they just never fix it, just be like "yeah
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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."
Apple fixed it. It now autocorrects "rapist" to trump.
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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."
"AI generates a series of characters" is not news
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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."
Good bot
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"AI generates a series of characters" is not news
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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
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Apple fixed it. It now autocorrects "rapist" to trump.
Yeah, can't have it be incomplete.
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Is there any combo with orange skin that would not give you Trump as an answer?
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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"
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Is there any combo with orange skin that would not give you Trump as an answer?
I wanted to say Annoying Orange, but he is not a convict.
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