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.

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

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,

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

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

The BBC said that the AI-generated summary of a notification falsely claimed that UnitedHealthcare suspect Luigi Mangione had died by suicide.

The BBC has filed a complaint with Apple over the fake news alert that was shared on iPhones and falsely attributed to the broadcasting service.