Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

Tech company blames ‘phonetic overlap’ for problem where US president’s name appearsApple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”.The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on Tiktok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word “Trump” when they said “racist”, and was later repeated by others on social media. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/26/apple-to-fix-iphone-dictation-bug-trump

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