A new feature led its users to believe that BBC News was announcing the suicide of Luigi Mangione, the man arrested after the murder of the boss of an American health insurance giant.
Implemented this week in the United Kingdom, “Apple Intelligence” offers grouped notifications of several pieces of information. Photo Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
By Télérama, with AFP
Published on December 14, 2024 at 3:40 p.m.
HAS barely launched, “Apple Intelligence”, a new functionality from the Apple brand based on artificial intelligence, is already showing its limits. The BBC said on Friday that it had complained to the American tech giant after the broadcast on certain iPhones of a notification of misleading information, generated by artificial intelligence and attributed to the 24-hour news channel of the British public audiovisual group BBC News.
Implemented this week in the United Kingdom, this new service offers grouped notifications of several pieces of information, generated using artificial intelligence. One of them suggested that the website of the BBC News channel had published an article claiming that Luigi Mangione, arrested after the murder in New York of the boss of an American health insurance giant, was committed suicide.
“BBC News is the most trusted news outlet in the world. It is essential to us that our audience can trust every information or article published on our behalf, and this includes notifications”a BBC spokesperson told AFP. “We have contacted Apple to express our concern and resolve this issue”he added.
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The group of notifications targeted by the complaint combined three pieces of information attributed to BBC News in these terms: “Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad will pay price; South Korean police raid Yoon Suk Yeol’s office » (the former South Korean president). The first information in this notification is false, Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested Monday in his hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and he is still alive.
According to the BBC, other similar bugs, concerning other media, have already been reported in the use of this application. On November 21, journalist Ken Schwenke, from the investigative site ProPublica, reported on Bluesky an error made regarding an article in the New York Times. While the International Criminal Court had just issued an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, a notification clearly indicated that the Israeli Prime Minister had been arrested.
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