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Apple promised to quickly correct a bug in its vocal text function which briefly exchanged words with a “R” consonant – including “racist” – for “Trump”.
The phenomenon, which has become viral in a video on Tiktok and was quickly seized by right commentators, occurs while the 3.7 TN company seeks to consolidate its relationship with the administration of Donald Trump.
“We are aware of a problem with the voice recognition model that feeds the dictation and we are deploying a correction today,” said Apple on Tuesday.
The company said that the bug was caused by its voice recognition models displaying words that have a certain level of “phonetic overlap”: in this case, suggesting the word “trump” when users dictate words with a consonant “r ».
Many social media users have published videos reproducing the problem on Tuesday, with the far -right commentator Alex Jones accusing the “subliminal programming” company.
A video showing the bug had raised hundreds of thousands of likes on Tiktok on Tuesday afternoon. Financial Times tests have shown the “Trump” suggestion that appears on words other than “racist”.
The problem one day after Apple is committed to spending $ 500 billion in the United States in the next four years, a decision widely considered to be an opening to the Trump administration. The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt underlined the plans on Tuesday in a briefing with journalists as an indication of the president’s success on business.
Apple is particularly exposed to trade tensions with China and sees an opportunity in Trump’s hostility towards EU technology regulators seeking to perceive fines against large technologies on alleged abuse of market power.
Managing Director Tim Cook spent years courting Trump and presented in a good place with other Silicon Valley leaders during its inauguration.
The controversy on vocal functionality to the text came the same day that the shareholders of the company voted to reject a proposal for a non -profit conservative organization seeking to cancel its diversity, its equity and inclusion policies .
Apple has proven a rare conservation among large technological companies by refusing to give in to the conservative pressure on policies.
Addressing shareholders on Tuesday, Cook said that the company “may need to modify” to comply with the changing legal landscape around Dei, Apple has engaged in its policies.
Software bugs have recently proven a problem for Apple. Last month, the iPhone manufacturer deleted an automated summary functionality that showed false or misleading information.
Apple has undergone a large overhaul of its iPhone operating system while it deploys “Apple Intelligence”, a series of artificial intelligence features that hopes to stimulate sales of its flagship device, but has received a mixed reception.
