The BBC said Apple Intelligence\u2019s weirdly wrong output sullied its reputation. Apple eventually paused the tool \u2013 but its reaction was deeply worrying<\/p>\n
My first mistake at the Guardian came, agonisingly enough, in my first article as a member of staff, and remains memorialised on the internet<\/a> to this day. My subject was not a theoretical physician, a note at the end politely explained, but a theoretical physicist. Ten years later, it still makes me shudder.<\/p>\n Still, I felt a little better about it when I saw the run that Apple\u2019s artificial intelligence system went on recently. In its automated summaries of news notifications sent out to some iPhones, it asserted that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself. It said that Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested. It said that Pete Hegseth, not then confirmed as Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of defense, had resigned. And it said that Rafael Nadal was gay<\/a>. For the avoidance of doubt: he didn\u2019t, he wasn\u2019t, he hadn\u2019t and he isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n