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Apple AI notification summaries and Siri privacy fallout, LG 6K display ‘announced’

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance talk about the current ongoing controversies with Apple Intelligence notification summaries and the reaction to the settlement of the Siri privacy lawsuit, and how Apple is managing the negative PR. LG announces a new 6K display, but does it actually exist? And Benjamin is thrilled to hear that Apple News+ Puzzles may finally be coming to the UK.

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0:00.0

So we have some follow up on the ongoing saga of the fake news being spread by Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries.

0:07.1

We talked a couple weeks ago about the BBC being upset that notification summaries had summarized a headline from the BBC news app and claimed that Luigi Mangione had shot himself when that definitely did not happen.

0:20.9

In the intervening weeks, there were a couple of other examples.

0:23.5

I think one was where Apple Intelligence claimed that somebody had won a dart match

0:28.1

hours before the dart match actually happened.

0:31.6

And then there was one where it claimed that Raphael Nadal, the tennis player,

0:34.7

had come out as gay when that did not happen.

0:37.5

So the BBC was obviously very upset about all of this and said, it's undermining the trust not only in the BBC, but in the of world news worldwide.

0:47.8

And they finally got a response from Apple, where Apple said, quote, Apple intelligence features are in beta,

0:55.1

and we are continuously making improvements

0:57.0

with the help of user feedback.

0:59.2

A software update in the coming weeks

1:01.0

will further clarify when the text being displayed

1:03.6

is summarization provided by Apple Intelligence,

1:06.4

and we encourage users to report a concern

1:08.9

if they view an unexpected notification summary.

1:12.2

Yeah, because although Apple Intelligence has summary features across the operating system,

1:17.0

what specifically being targeted is the notification summaries.

1:19.9

Right.

1:20.4

Because that's what, basically, the BBC News app does push notifications for headlines and breaking news,

1:25.9

and then once you get three or four of them,

1:28.4

Apple intelligence phones group them together and give you a summary in one card. And right now,

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