The voice-to-text tool on the iPhone is in hot water since users have noticed that it sometimes substitutes the term “racist” for the word “Trump.” This has caused users to go through a double-take.
When a user says “racist” into the voice-to-text feature, the word “Trump” pops up for a brief while before switching to the right word. TMZ has the receipts, and we tried it ourselves when a TikTok user brought it to our attention.
The problem has been reproduced on several occasions; however, the term “Trump” did not appear each and every time the user repeated the word “racist” in the same message.
Due to the fact that this problem has been seen in several testing, it does not seem to be a simple error; rather, it may be an indication that Apple’s voice-recognition technology has some deeply ingrained biases.
TMZ has attempted to get a statement from representatives of both Apple and Trump. There has been no response as of yet; however, a spokeswoman for Apple issued the following statement to FOX News: “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation, and we are rolling out a fix as soon as possible.”
Without a doubt, the most important question at this point is: how did that “issue” make its way into Apple products?
Trump’s team has threatened to go after hackers who posted a recent video of DT sucking on Elon Musk’s toes that was made by artificial intelligence and shown on television screens in a federal facility this week. It is possible that they will come out swinging on this front as well.