iPhone writes "Trump" if you say the word "racist" in dictation

[C3D]

Nope, that's not a joke. Say Trump to Siri and the word it comes up with is "racist". Some heads at Apple need to roll.

Bizarre iPhone dictation glitch hears ‘Trump’ when user says ‘racist’ as Apple scrambles to fix

Apple is fixing a bug that caused its voice-to-text dictation software to mistakenly transcribe the word “racist” as “Trump,” the company said on Wednesday.

nypost.com

 

[kev74]

Sounds like 45/47 is going to win another law suit.

 

[Jsmegs77]

It’s a little more involved than just “Trump=Racist”. It only seems to activate on the first attempt, subsequent instances are correct. It also doesn’t activate if screen recording is on.

Definitely intentional, not a glitch.

 

[Celt]

Absolutely intentional things like that don't happen by accident. Apple needs to be held accountable for it so that Apple then holds its employees accountable.

 

[dwa12479]

I know several people who have confirmed that if they use voice to text on their Apple device and say "racist", that it will briefly flash Trump before showing racist.

 

[pshift]

It's an 'undocumented feature' ...

 

[Saltwater60]

I’m sure some disgruntled moron did this on purpose at Apple.

 

[Bustedknees]

I'm droid, but I had my wife try it. Here's the result from her Iphone.

 

[Koz]

....but, but, but it was in an algorithm. Pricks.

 

[SonOfSun]

Absolutely intentional things like that don't happen by accident. Apple needs to be held accountable for it so that Apple then holds its employees accountable.

Accountable for what exactly? They are a private entity they can do whatever they want on their website. If it's just pairing words with commonly associated phrases, oh well?

It's sort of a dumb thing to do, but making dumb business choices isn't illegal.

 

[Celt]

Accountable for what exactly? They are a private entity they can do whatever they want on their website. If it's just pairing words with commonly associated phrases, oh well?

It's sort of a dumb thing to do, but making dumb business choices isn't illegal.

Sue the company for libel perhaps, and in turn the company could fire the person responsible for costing the company money. And if this action doesnt fall under the libel laws, at least hold them to account but making it as public as possible to help turn people off to apple products, and hurting them in the wallet.

Of course a private company can do as they please, but if an employee is costing the company money i cant imagine they would want to keep them around.

I am quite tired of the left calling everyone racist or sexist, etc.. just because you dont agree with them.