The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging Apple to remove its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news stories after it produced a false headline from the BBC.

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Apple has come under scrutiny for its new artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news stories, after it reportedly issued false headlines in multiple instances. The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging Apple to remove this AI feature, which represented itself as providing content directly from major news outlets like the BBC and The New York Times.

One significant error made by the feature was the claim that Luigi Mangione, suspected of killing the CEO of United Health Care, had shot himself. Another occurrence involved a headline stating that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had been arrested, which was untrue. These misleading events raised concerns that the AI had confused different news situations, possibly involving other incidents or legal actions such as the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant.

Media outlets involved, including the BBC, have protested these inaccurately summarized headlines. The AI summarization system currently only functions on the newest Apple devices and operating systems. Apple has not provided a comment on the situation. Concerns grow over the potential spread of false information, amplifying calls, especially from groups like Reporters Without Borders, to ensure reliable dissemination of news.



Apple urged to remove faulty AI feature

Apple really under fire for its new AI feature, which is supposed to summarize the news for you. But instead, in at least one case, sent out a false headline from the BBC. This new artificial intelligence feature, as I noted, was supposed to summarize news stories, which it did falsely last week. In that moment, claiming that Luigi Mangione, the suspect behind the killing of the United Health Care CEO, had in fact shot himself. Reporters Without Borders is now urging Apple to remove the feature. CNN media correspondent Hadass Gold is covering these developments for us. So a fair amount of, not just outrage, but frankly, justified concern about this feature, Hadass. Yeah, justified concern, because what's most worrying about this is that this AI feature was summarizing news stories, so it presented to you, you know, one of those few lines saying a few different news stories at once, but presenting it as though it was coming directly from the news outlets themselves. And that's what's most worrying, because people were thinking they were reading something directly from the BBC, and actually there was another case for The New York Times. So some of these headlines that were published by Apple include Luigi Mangione shoots himself, made it seem directly coming from the BBC, and then actually a second one last month, this was pointed out by a ProPublica reporter, that Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, had been arrested. Now, what seems to have happened here is that the AI, this Apple intelligence, got confused, because for the Netanyahu case, the International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant, but Netanyahu himself had not been arrested. With the Luigi Mangione case, it's possible they may have gotten it confused with maybe the school shooter in Wisconsin. But no matter how or why it got confused, when it was presented to the user on their Apple iPhone, it made it seem as though it had the BBC logo, had the New York Times logo, it made it seem that was the actual story itself. Now, the BBC has complained, and they have asked Apple to fix this. Apple so far is not commenting. And the publishers, I should note, they have no control over this summary. It's not like they can input what they think the summary should be. It's the AI that's taking this itself. Now, if you haven't noticed this on your phone, that's because this Apple intelligence is only in the newest iPhones and computers and on the newest operating system, but we should expect Apple intelligence will be on all of our Apple phones sometime soon. Now, why is this dangerous, other than just, you know, people getting fake news, is because what if instead of another news story, it was saying something like there's an active shooter in New York City, where we are right now. That could instill panic. People could react to that news. And that's why you're seeing places like Reporters Without Borders trying to urge Apple to just get rid of this feature itself. They said in part that it's a blow to the outlet's credibility, the outlets who are being cited by Apple intelligence, and a danger to the public's right to reliable information on current affairs. Erica.

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