Strange iPhone bug: dictate the word "racist" and see "Trump" written on the screen
iPhone users have discovered a strange bug in voice input: when dictating the word "racist", the word "Trump" appears for a moment.
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Some users have noticed that when using iPhone's built-in dictation, the word "racist" is initially displayed as "Trump" and then corrected by the speech recognition system. In some cases, other variants, such as "Rhett" or "Rouch", also appeared.
This error gained popularity after the video in question began to circulate on TikTok and other social media. An Apple spokesperson explained to The New York Times that the problem arose due to a "phonetic match" of the words. At the same time, it is not known whether the bug existed before, but has only now been noticed, or whether it appeared after internal changes in the system.
Former Siri team member John Berkey suggested that the error could be caused by Apple's code or the data used for artificial intelligence. He even noted that it "looks like a serious prank".
Apple has stated that it is already working on fixing this error.
It is known that Apple is preparing to integrate Google Gemini into Siri. Currently, Siri can send requests to ChatGPT, but Apple wants to expand the choice of AI models. Developer Aaron Perris found an update to the server side in the iOS 18.4 beta, where the options for choosing third-party models such as OpenAI and Google appeared. The integration may occur in future updates of iOS 18 or as early as iOS 19.
Source: The New York Times
