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.
Duffy said a fix to the problem was coming.
President Donald Trump took to social media to take Apple to task regarding its DEI rules.
Since taking office in January, Trump has wanted to erase diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in federal government and the private sector.
Unlike other companies, Apple has balked at cutting diversity measures.
“APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT JUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM,” Trump wrote. “DEI WAS A HOAX THAT HAS BEEN VERY BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY. DEI IS GONE!!!”
Apple said to NBC News the glitch in its speech recognition technology is posting “Trump” when users say words that begin with the “r” consonant.
“We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” the company said in a statement.
One expert told The New York Times the “glitch” may be a prank.
John Burkey, a former employee on Apple’s Siri team who now runs an AI startup, said, “This smells like a serious prank. The only question is: Did someone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”
