A core function of Apple intelligence is increasingly being criticized: after incorrectly summarizing a news headline, the media organization Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) is now calling on the iPhone company to “act responsibly” and on this issue from the operating system. Is calling for the feature to be removed. Journalists point out that AI tools are too “immature” to generate reliable and high-quality information for the public. The automated creation of false information through language models undermines trust in the media and puts journalism at risk. AI are “probability machines”, rsf writesBut facts should not come by rolling the dice.
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The organization has not only appealed to Apple’s sense of responsibility, but also indirectly called on the EU Commission to take action: According to RSF, the use of AI in the context of news reporting should not be allowed at all . The European AI Regulation (EU AI Act) failed to classify such news summaries created by AI as high-risk systems thus creating a “legal void”. This should end now.
RSF’s call follows a complaint from the BBC: The British broadcaster contacted Apple earlier this week after an AI function on at least one iPhone misleadingly presented a summary of a title. The suspect in the highly publicized murder of a US insurance boss shot himself, according to a factually incorrect abbreviation generated by Apple’s language model. It is unclear what the original title received as a push message from the BBC app was. Apple has not yet responded publicly to the matter.
So far, Apple Intelligence can only speak English
Since iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence summarizes incoming information upon request. This function currently only works in English and is only available on Macs in the EU, but is not officially available on iPhones and iPads. Such errors are difficult to reproduce because language models produce different outputs and the AI ​​summary varies depending on other preceding messages. Since the launch of the feature, there have been reports of bizarre, funny, and even disturbing summaries from Apple Intelligence.
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