Apple iPhone's voice-to-text feature periodically shows 'Trump' when user says 'racist'
Subliminal programing ?Apple iPhone's voice-to-text feature periodically shows 'Trump' when user says 'racist'
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Apple’s iPhone voice-to-text feature is sparking controversy after a viral TikTok video showed a user speaking the word "racist," which at first showed up as "Trump" before switching back to "racist."
Fox News Digital was able to replicate the issue multiple times. The voice-to-text dictation feature was observed briefly flashing "Trump" when a user said "racist" before it quickly changed back to "racist" – just like in the viral TikTok video.
However, "Trump" did not appear every time a user said "racist."
The voice-to-text feature also wrote words like "reinhold" and "you" when a user said "racist." Most of the time, the feature accurately wrote "racist."
An Apple spokesperson said Tuesday that the company is addressing the issue.
"We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation, and we are rolling out a fix as soon as possible," the spokesperson said.
Apple says that the speech recognition models that power dictation may temporarily display words with some phonetic overlap, before landing on the correct word. The bug affects other words with an "r" consonant when dictated, Apple says.
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