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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: iPhone dictation bug
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:04:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Rick <rick@nospam.com> wrote:
> 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.  

Ha ha. Why not just lynch them? Get a grip. 

> Imagine the outcry if it 
> had flashed the word "Obama"?

Obama wasn't an undeniable racist.