Apple announced Monday that it will release an update to better indicate that notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence.
“A software update in the coming weeks will make it even clearer when the text you see is a summary provided by Apple Intelligence. If you see a summary of an unexpected notification, please report a concern. “We encourage our users to do so,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement.
Apple's notification summaries are helpful, but they can also be quite inaccurate. Summaries can be interesting, but they are also often mildly confusing. Last month, the BBC complained that the feature misrepresented its headline, which said Luigi Mangione, accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had committed suicide by shooting himself. Ta.
Last year, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that Apple Intelligence does not summarize notifications it deems sensitive.
Technology companies are looking for ways to properly label AI-generated content. Last year, complaints from photographers about not using AI tools for photo editing forced Meta to tweak the labeling of images posted on social networks that were generated or edited using AI. It was done. Google has also started adding disclosures for images created using its AI tools.