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felixwhynot@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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

www.nytimes.com

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

www.nytimes.com

felixwhynot@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.

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

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

    🤔

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      Maybe its because the word “rapist” sounds a lot like “racist”.

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

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      she clearly has no idea how AI works

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        Nor phonetics

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    deleted by creator

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      They should just flex and own this one

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

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    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

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    Based siri lolol

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    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.

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    Get Tim Apple on the phone.

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    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

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    They are the same picture

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    I’m not even mad… except for the NYT links without a paywall bypass link

    • felixwhynot@lemmy.worldOP
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      Shared it from the gift articles comm, must be outta juice sry

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        Use a archived version next time.

        Clean, no ads, no silly restrictions.

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