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From: Rick <rick@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: iPhone dictation bug
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:50:57 -0500
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On 2/26/2025 9:54 PM, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-02-27 02:27:34 +0000, Rick said:
>> 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"?
> 
> It's unlikely to be an actual bug nor a deliberate act. There are many 
> many places were the words "Trump" and "racist" appear, so useless AI 
> bots simply connect the two and offer it as a suggestion. Now a specific 
> rule will have to be added to the dictation feature to avoid that 
> connection. Welcome to the world of idiotic AI and its garbage answers. 
> There will be a ton of similar issues that simply haven't been stumbled 
> across.
> 
> 

But this is supposed to be dictation software, not word-association 
software.  It shouldn't really matter that the words are often used 
together - dictation software normally means translating a specific 
spoken word into its spelling, not offering "suggestions" for a 
different word in place of what was suggested.

Also the fact that the word Trump only flashes briefly before the 
correct word appears definitely sounds like an intended result. 
Otherwise, a simple fix might be to just have it not flash anything 
until the final word is identified and displayed.