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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: iPhone dictation bug
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:41:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Rick <rick@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 2/27/2025 3:04 AM, Chris wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Whether anyone is a racist is ultimately a personal opinion.

Not true. Under many circumstances it constitutes a hate crime which is a
legal definition in many jurisdictions including the Federal US.