Apple promises to correct the dictation error that replaces “racist” with “Trump”

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Apple promised to quickly correct the mistake of its voting function to the text, which briefly changed the words with the consonant “R”, including the “racist”-for “Trump”.

The phenomenon, which became viral in the video on the tiktok and was quickly confiscated by the right commentators, comes when the company of $ 3.7 TN seeks to strengthen relations with the Donald Trump administration.

“We know about the problem with the speech recognition model, what is the dictation powers and we will correct today,” Apple said on Tuesday.

The company said the mistake was caused by its speech recognition models that reflect words that have a certain level of “phonetic overlap”: in this case, judging the word “Trump” when users dictate words with the consonant “R”.

On Tuesday, numerous social media users posted a video that repeats the glitter, and the extremely right -wing commentator Alex Jones accused the company of “subsequent programming”.

A video showing a mistake scored hundreds of thousands of likes on Tuesday in the afternoon. Financial Times tests showed the proposal of “Trump”, which appeared in other words except “racist”.

Flash came through the day after Apple committed Spending $ 500 billion In the United States, over the next four years, the step is widely regarded as spring to Trump administration. White House press secretary Carolyn Levit emphasized plans at a briefing with journalists on Tuesday as a testimony to the success of the President on business.

Apple is particularly exposed to trading tensions with China and see the opportunity in the hostility of Trump to EU technological regulators Seeking fines from large technologies from allegedly abuse of the market.

Chief Executive Director Tim Cook spent years to take care of Trump and markedly participated with other leaders of Silicon Valley at his inauguration.

Polemics on the function of the voice text occurred on the same day when the company’s shareholders voted for the deviation bid With a conservative non -profit organization that seeks to cancel its diversity, capital and inclusion.

Apple has proven rare content among large technology companies, refusing to retreat from conservative pressure from the policy.

Speaking to shareholders on Tuesday, Cook said the company “may need to make some changes” to match the change of the legal landscape around Dei, Apple was devoted to its policy.

Recently, software errors have proven a problem for Apple. Last month, the iPhone manufacturer deleted an automated news resume feature that showed false or misleading information.

Apple has undergone a large overhaul of its iPhone operating system as it deployed “Apple Intelligence”, a set of generative features of artificial intelligence, which he hopes to increase the sale of his flagship device, but will receive a mixed reception.