Tapper Questions ‘Very Fishy’ iPhone ‘Glitch’ Swapping ‘Racist’ With ‘Trump’
CNN’s Jake Tapper was not falling for it. The core of Trapper’s skepticism was Apple saying a “bug” caused “racist” with “Trump” in some iPhones, per Mediaite. The “bug” involved the talk-to-text feature what would…
CNN’s Jake Tapper was not falling for it.
The core of Trapper’s skepticism was Apple saying a “bug” caused “racist” with “Trump” in some iPhones, per Mediaite.
The “bug” involved the talk-to-text feature what would change the words for some iOS users earlier this week.
On Wednesday’s show, “The Lead,” Tapper said his team tested an iPhone to see if it happened. It did.
“Apple is working to fix what they’re calling a bug that briefly changes the word racist to the word Trump,” Tapper said. “When you use the voice-to-text feature, I’m not making this up, we tested it at ‘The Lead’ here and we saw it for ourselves.”
A female CNN production member saw it herself when she said “racist” into her phone and “Trump” appeared on the screen.
Tapper interviewed CNN Business writer Clare Duffy about the matter, calling it “fishy.”
“Clare, I have to say that is a very fishy glitch,” Tapper said.
“Yeah, Jake, the company is saying essentially that the AI system behind its voice-to-text feature can occasionally type an incorrect word with phonetic overlap, essentially where that sounds similar to what a user was trying to say before quickly correcting, which is what we see happened here,” Duffy said,
“I don’t sense a lot of phonetic overlap, but what do I know?” Tapper said.