Apple has made changes to controversial AI functions in the newly released third beta of iOS 18.3. This is the testers’ report from the developer pre-release report. The company had already announced this after various press organizations and journalist associations called for the closure of so-called AI summaries.
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just turned it off
In iOS 18.3 beta 3, AI summaries are no longer generated for apps in the “News” and “Entertainment” categories. However, this mallet solution seems to be only temporary, they should return “in a later software update”. Apple had announced that it wanted to label potentially inaccurate summaries in the future so that users can spot the danger. Currently this is not the case, you just see a simple icon that indicates a summary, but doesn’t look like an AI.
Apple has also added a new warning in System Settings. In addition to an explanation of what AI summaries are, there’s a note here that they “may contain errors”. Blocking summaries for messages doesn’t work consistently, and some apps seem to slip through their allocations in the App Store. It is also not clear what the actual solution would look like, i.e. what type of labeling is being considered.
italics should do the trick
Apple takes a different approach to other apps and notifications from communications programs: Instead of blocking them completely, they are now set in italics, including the famous summary icon. How useful this is is unclear, as users cannot conclude from italics alone that errors may occur. Again, it’s unclear whether this represents Apple’s final solution. Another new option concerns displaying the summary on the lock screen. This can now be turned off for each app with a swipe.
The British broadcaster BBC complained, among other things, that Apple Intelligence had changed a web headline to a report of the death of a killer who was still alive. Other incorrectly summarized notifications included a fake darts world champion and a tennis player who was said to have come out. Personal information sometimes turns difficult mountaineering into “suicide”.
(B.Sc.)
