iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/technology/iphone-dictation-trump-racist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk4.2sC2._PWLuG2_ZoGT

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18840134

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21 Comments

can@sh.itjust.works · 95 pts · 1y (4 replies)

An Apple spokeswoman blamed the issue on phonetic overlap between the two words, and said the company was working on a fix.

🤔

regrub@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 1y
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straightjorkin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

This is such a funny lie, they aren't even the same number of syllables

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

she clearly has no idea how AI works

can@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Nor phonetics

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 50 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

They should just flex and own this one

Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

Interesting how you managed to spin their accountability as a bad thing. It sounds like you prefer companies that refuse to squirm.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 37 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The company said it is working to fix the issue...

What issue? It sounds like it works perfectly fine.

dneaves@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

cm0002@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y

Based siri lolol

morrowind@lemmy.ml · 35 pts · 1y

Instead, he said, there was probably software code somewhere on Apple’s systems that caused iPhones to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist.”

“This smells like a serious prank,” Mr. Burkey said. “The only question is: Did someone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”

yeah, I wouldn't read too much into it guys

jaybone@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y

Get Tim Apple on the phone.

cybervseas@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Apple will comply and instead transcribe "winner" to "Trump" in order to curry favor with him. Just like they kowtow on the Gulf of Shame.

eporetsky@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Not sure if this is relevant but would be interesting to see what words have high cosine similarity with "Trump" in different pre-trained LLMs

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I'm not even mad... except for the NYT links without a paywall bypass link

felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Shared it from the gift articles comm, must be outta juice sry

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Use a archived version next time.

Clean, no ads, no silly restrictions.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No. Do not share that site. It uses google scripts and can't be loaded in Tor Browser.

Just share an article from another news outlet that doesn't paywall.

Bug stories like this are covered by hundreds of outlets. Its not hard.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I had to try this and you appear to be correct.

Its kinda bizare i get a captcha which i cant enter without javascript but in firefox i dont get any captcha at all.

However i don’t think your solution is adequate. I don’t particularly care about this story i care about having to face a paywall every 3 times i click a link on lemmy.

Kinda sucks there are not more sites like it but i did successfully test this compromise: https://web.archive.org/web/20250226151151/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/technology/iphone-dictation-trump-racist.html

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 1y

If we just publish articles from one of the majority of news sites that dont have paywalls, there is no problems. Everyone can load it with one click.

We really should ban linking to the nyt

lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y

They are the same picture

JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

Rare Apple W