Apple Ceases AI News Alerts After High-Profile Mistakes
deadline.comApple has canceled its AI-generated news alerts after a series of high-profile SNAFUs. The tech giant was facing mounting criticism over its Apple Intelligence service with complaints from the likes of the BBC, American journalists and news organizations over news alerts that appeared to come from these organizations and were either wrong or poorly summarized.
One high-profile example saw an alert generated by Apple from BBC News falsely tell readers that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself.
An Apple-generated news summary claimed darts superstar Luke Littler had won the world championship final before it had even started, while another falsely told some BBC Sport app users that tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.
Journalists on social media had also slammed the feature for inaccurately summarizing major headlines on big American papers.
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