Apple’s AI tool transcribes the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
Videos posted online show people speaking the word 'racist' into Apple's AI Dictation tool. It is sometimes transcribed correctly but on other occasions it turns into 'Trump', before being quickly corrected to the right word.
The tech behemoth says the issue comes from its Dictation service being unable to distinguish between words that have an 'r' in them.
However, an expert in speech recognition argues that Apple's explanation is "just not plausible". Peter Bell suggests that Apple's issue is unlikely to be a genuine mistake with the data as its English language model would be trained on hundreds of thousands of hours of speech and should therefore have a high level of accuracy.
A former Apple employee who worked on its AI assistant Siri suspects that a "serious prank" has been pulled.
Source: https://www.gmx.com/technology/11535422-apple-ai-tool-mistakenly-transcribed-word-racist-t.html#.1559516-exit-mostviewed1-3