Apple's AI garbage reportedly posting straight-up misinformation now

Although it didn’t clarify which news story, exactly, was being shortened, the BBC article in question showed a screenshot of Apple Intelligence apparently summarizing a headline as “Luigi Mangione shoots himself,” a blatant falsehood appearing to run under the BBC News label. (The same BBC article also cites reports of Apple Intelligence pulling a similar muddling of a headline about Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.) As it turns out, journalists—who are not already wild about what AI propagation has done to the general information quality of the internet over the last few years—really don’t like it when a computer takes an article, turns it into an outright lie, and pushes it out to people with their name attached, and so BBC News has issued a complaint to Apple, asking it to please knock this shit off, or at least make this shit less clearly wrong if it’s not going to knock it off. (It is obviously not going to knock it off, because tech companies have been plowing huge amounts of time and money into this stuff in the cheerful confidence that someone will find an actual use for it at some point for a while now. The future: Worse.)