AI Incident Database: Apple’s Voice Dictation Reportedly Substitutes ‘Trump’ for ‘Racist’ Due to Speech Recognition Bug
Apple's iPhone dictation feature reportedly displayed "Trump" when users dictated the word "racist," with a viral video demonstrating the glitch. Apple acknowledged the bug, attributing it to a phonetic overlap in its speech recognition model, though some speculated it could be an internal prank. The company announced an immediate fix.
AI Incident Database · Incident 952Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
Apple's iPhone dictation feature reportedly displayed "Trump" when users dictated the word "racist," with a viral video demonstrating the glitch. Apple acknowledged the bug, attributing it to a phonetic overlap in its speech recognition model, though some speculated it could be an internal prank. The company announced an immediate fix.
Linked entities
- apple
organisation | 70%
- apple-users
organisation | 70%
- donald-trump
organisation | 70%
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| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |