Apple's AI feature, Apple Intelligence, faces criticism after misattributing fake news to the BBC, raising concerns about generative AI's reliability in journalism and its impact on public trust in digital news.

Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

One of the features of Apple Intelligence is its ability to summarize notifications, which was first introduced in iOS 18.1. Cupertino says the summaries allow users

Just a week after its debut in the UK, Apple Intelligence has encountered a controversy involving hallucinations, prompting a formal complaint from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The issue arose when a piece of fabricated,

Apple, X’s Grok, and Google have all faced scrutiny in 2024 for the misleading nature of some of their AI-generated news summaries.

If you’re getting too many summaries on your iPhone that don’t make sense, you can change the list of apps your iPhone summarizes with Apple Intelligence by going to Settings > Notifications > Summarize Notifications or even choose to turn off the feature entirely.

Apple has only just begun rolling out a much-hyped suite of AI features for its devices, and we are already seeing major problems. Case in point, the BBC has complained to Apple after an AI-powered notification summary rewrote a BBC headline to say the UHC CEO’s murderer Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

Apple Intelligence managed to create a piece of Luigi Mangione fake news last week, thanks to the notification summary

"Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office," the notification read in full. Apple Intelligence appear

A false AI-powered headline indicating accused murderer Luigi Mangione had committed suicide is causing a row overseas.

Tech giant Apple has come under scrutiny after its artificial intelligence (AI) service mistakenly generated a misleading alert attributed to BBC News.