Apple urged to axe AI feature after false headline (opens in new tab)

I'm not sure why you find it misleading, it says it's a beta repeatedly, both on the Settings page, on the logo, and during the opt in enablement process.

Honestly, if you're providing it (I believe by default in territories where it's enabled?) to everyone, then 'beta' is purely a marketing term and should carry no weight at all.

This is an example of the fundamental underlying problem with anything LLM-based, though; the output is completely un-trustable. This _particular_ example, while likely shocking for, say, Luigi's granny, is not broadly dangerous, but it's very easy to imagine mistakes of similar form causing widespread panic.

I think the other example:

> On 21 November, three articles from the New York Times were grouped together in one notification - with one part reading "Netanyahu arrested", referring to the Israeli prime minister.

is actually a little more alarming. What if it read, say, "Trump arrested"? It is not hard to imagine that causing, ah, trouble; see Jan 6th 2021.

This feature seems obviously ill-conceived and should be switched off, at least by default, until they can guarantee it works properly (hint: as it's LLM-driven the answer is 'never').

did anyone ever advertised IM as a stop all crime solution?