A shocking iPhone -Glitch seems to transcribe 'Trump' when users say the word 'racist' in another apple controversy in which President Donald Trump is involved.
Countless users have exposed the digital 'glitch' in viral Tiktok videos that forced Apple to climb to answers.
The videos show the voice-totext function of Apple with short 'Trump' when users say 'racist' before they correct themselves quickly.
The glitch that has been replicated by hundreds of bewildered iPhone users.
The technology giant is forced to respond to the scandal, with a spokesperson who admits that they are “aware of a problem” and rush to roll out a solution “as quickly as possible.”
“We are aware of a problem with the speech recognition model that has dictation in force, and we roll out a solution as quickly as possible,” said the spokesperson.
Apple blamed the problem of a 'phonetic overlap' where the speech recognition software will display similar sounding words before the correct match is chosen.
According to Apple, the bug influences several words that contain the 'r' medlorist when dictated – not only politically charged conditions.
A shocking iPhone -glitch seems to transcribe 'Trump' when users say the word 'racist' in another Apple -contro trovers
But many users do not buy that this was just an innocent technical error – and some say it sounds like a little more sinister.
“Mine did it every time, Apple is so messy,” a user commented on the video.
Another joke: “Someone at Apple is fired lmao.”
Hundreds of users said they tried it herself and were shocked by the results.
“This is insane that it also worked for me and I was craving for breath,” they wrote.
'Wow, it literally did it for me after the fourth or fifth time. I really thought this was everyone on a joke, but it did it, I can't believe it, “another chimed in it.
One user offered another possible theory behind the mistake.
'Predictive analysis is used to guess your next word. If it is trained on others, this would be logical. Probably means that a large set of people often uses racist and Trump in the same sense, often enough. '
Countless users have exposed the digital 'glitch' in viral Tiktok videos that forced Apple to climb to answers
This is not the first time that Apple's voting assistant has been involved in Apolitical Controverse around Trump.
In 2018, Apple's Siri led to controversy when the speech assistant showed an X-rated image when iPhone users asked “Who is Donald Trump?”
The technical error took place after jokers changed the Wikipedia page that Siri had obtained information.
