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From: Rick <rick@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: iPhone dictation bug
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:27:34 -0500
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On 2/26/2025 9:12 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2025-02-26 17:32, badgolferman wrote:
>> Apple is fixing a bug within the dictation feature on some iPhones that
>> briefly suggests the word “Trump” when a word with an R consonant is
>> spoken, including “racist.”
>>
>> The company is responding to the controversy after some iPhone owners
>> posted videos on social media this week to detail how the glitch works.
>>
>> When users activated the dictation feature and said the word “racist,” 
>> the
>> word “Trump” appears in the text window before quickly being replaced by
>> the correct word, according to various videos posted online.
>>
>> “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers
>> Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” Apple said in a statement
>> sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
>>
>> https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-racist-trump-glitch-d80f88d69f6ceac585904f2faa2a9212
> 
> Sounds like someone decided to have a little fun.
> 
> Good.
> 
> :-)
I'd hardly call it fun when someone puts a feature like this into 
production software.  If the person who did this can be identified, they 
should be fired and possibly even prosecuted.  Imagine the outcry if it 
had flashed the word "Obama"?