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Apple says when users say “racist” | Real Time Headlines

A man is walking on a street in New York, USA on August 1, 2018, holding an Apple iPhone.

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Apple said it was working to fix it before some iPhone users noticed that saying the word “racist” in the voice-to-text feature would lead to it writing “Trump,” before it was quickly switching to “racist,” it was working to fix it. Fault.

Confused and outrage from conservative commentators, including Infowars hosts and conspiracy theorists Alex Jonesgrow online after tiktok users Calling function In a video released last week. Since then, others on social media have photographed their own tests Glitch.

Several NBC News reporters were able to copy the same trend on multiple iPhone devices. When activating its voice command characteristics and saying the word “racist”, the text results will be briefly displayed “Trump” and then replaced by “racist.” However, not all tests can cause failure.

“We are aware of a problem with the speech recognition model, even if commands drive commands, we are rolling out solutions today,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sometimes, the speech recognition model that powers the feature may first display some words with voice overlap until further analysis allows it to land on the actual words the user intends to say, Apple says. The tech company said the error was incorrectly suggesting “Trump” in response to several words that include the “R” consonant.

Apple glitch is the latest example of a major technology company accused of political bias.

last month, The Yuan faces the rebound Users claim that its social platform promoted President Donald Trump and his administration after the inauguration. Users noticed that they appeared to be in an attempt to automatically follow Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s new page to issue an alert. But, Meta said, it was part of the usual practice of the company during the presidential transition.

Also Resolved the complaint About Instagram seems to block results when searching for hashtag #Democrat and claims it is a problem affecting “many different hashtags on Instagram, not just the one on the left”.

In September, Amazon said it solved a bug that led to its virtual assistant Alexa Give different answers When asked to provide reasons to vote for Trump with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

When asked about Trump, Alex reportedly refused to “provide content that promotes a specific party or a specific candidate.” But when asked about Harris, the assistant sometimes details the reasons for supporting the candidate.

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