The tech giant confirmed that it was pausing generative AI-enabled summaries of news notifications after complaints the technology was making errors.
A consortium of tech companies has agreed to flag AI-generated images — but, so far, Apple and X remain on the sidelines.
Apple Intelligence hallucinations spur Apple to temporarily disable AI-powered notification summaries for news and entertainment apps.
Phones with Apple Intelligence will temporarily be losing notification summaries on news and entertainment apps.
Apple is facing heavy criticism over its much-hyped artificial intelligence tool’s habit of spitting out fake news in its AI-generated summaries – including an inaccurate alert about Defense
Tomorrow’s employees have grown up with that tech, meaning Gen Z is also set to be Generation AI. This is going to become increasingly important to business users, who will need to make the right investments today to ensure they have appropriate tech (including experience and policy) in place.
According to Axios, Apple is also using the new software updates to tweak the labeling of its AI features. Users will now see text stressing that notification summaries are in beta, and therefore, could produce unexpected results.
Apple's iPhones, despite new models with features like Apple Intelligence, lost global market share in 2024 amid China challenges.
With iOS 18.3 (starting in beta 3), Apple is introducing several key changes to Apple Intelligence notification summaries that should help address these issues: Notification Summaries for apps in the News & Entertainment category will be disabled for now, and re-enabled in a future update when Apple improves the accuracy of the AI summaries.
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The tech giant – which recently pushed back against pressure to repeal its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs – has responded to calls to withdraw the service, which sent users news notifications with inaccurate headlines that appeared to be from the news organizations themselves, using logos and titles.