Apple Intelligence summaries mess could be solved in three ways

I am writing to Six colorsVeteran tech writer Jason Snell believes Apple’s plan to solve the problem Apple Intelligence A messy resume doesn’t go far enough and contains three sentences for the company.

This post follows a series of unfortunate errors in attempts to summarize news stories that were variously claimed that Luigi Mangione shot himselfannounced the winner of the competition, who didn’t even happenand reported on the non-existent coming out of the tennis player…

The mess with Apple Intelligence summaries

Apple’s new feature makes headlines inability to parse headings a month ago.

The BBC is unhappy with Apple Intelligence’s notification summary feature. The corporation says its notification summary feature “created a false headline” about Lugi Mangione, who was arrested this week as a suspect in the murder of the CEO of United HealthGroup. The brief in question incorrectly suggested that Mangione had shot himself.

Further examples followed.

An Apple news bulletin falsely claims darts player Luke Littler has won the PDC World Championship – before he even played the final. The incorrect summary was written by artificial intelligence (AI) and was based on a BBC story about Littler’s victory in the semi-final of the tournament on Thursday night.

Hours later, another AI notification falsely told some users of the BBC Sport app that tennis great Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.

Apple remained silent at first, but later emphasized that this was a beta version, and I promise to improve the labeling AI-generated resumes.

Apple Intelligence features are in beta and we’re constantly making improvements with the help of user feedback. A software update coming in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text displayed is a summary provided by Apple Intelligence.

Snell’s three proposals

In his articleSnell says Apple’s proposed approach doesn’t go far enough—and the beta excuse doesn’t work.

It’s hard to accept “it’s a beta” as an excuse when these features are included in non-beta versions of software that are widely marketed to the public as selling points for Apple’s latest hardware. […] Apple introduces a feature that is often rewrites headers to be incorrect. It’s a failure and shouldn’t be discounted as something that’s typical of 2020s OS features.

Snell’s full article offers several solutions to the problem. which you can read at Six colors.

Opinion 9to5Mac

This is a good option. In particular, providing app developers with an opt-out option would be a win-win. This would mean that organizations like the BBC could simply say: “No, we don’t want to be unwitting participants in your beta, thanks.” And since developers can do this, it would give Apple something of a get-out-of-jail-free card, since it could indicate that developers decide for themselves whether they want to take these kinds of risks.

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