Apple Intelligence would have led its users to believe that BBC News announced the suicide of Luigi Mangione, the man arrested after the murder of the boss of an American health insurance giant.
The BBC said this Friday, December 12, that it had complained to the American tech giant Apple after the broadcast on certain iPhones of a notification of misleading information generated by artificial intelligence and attributed to the audiovisual group’s continuous news channel British public BBC News.
The Apple Intelligence service, launched this week in the United Kingdom, generates grouped notifications of several pieces of information, using artificial intelligence, and one of them suggested that the BBC channel’s website News had published an article claiming that Luigi Mangione, arrested after the murder in New York of the boss of an American health insurance giant, had committed suicide.
False information about Luigi Mangione
“BBC News is the most trusted media outlet in the world. It is essential to us that our audience can have confidence in every piece of information or article published on our behalf, and this includes notifications,” he told AFP. a BBC spokesperson.
“We have contacted Apple to express our concern and resolve this issue,” he added.
The group of notifications covered by the complaint combined three pieces of information attributed to BBC News: “Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad will pay the 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, December 9 in his hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and he is still alive. This grouped notification service is available on the latest iPhone model (iPhone16), and on some previous models.
