Much of Apple Intelligence is still in beta, but Notification summaries has become somewhat of a hot topic feature within Apple’s first AI-focused feature set. It’s had a few fumbles, most notably with summarizing a BBC story about Luigi Mangione, who is the accused killer of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, quite incorrectly.
It’s not unheard of for AI and these LLMs (large language models) that power them to hallucinate at times, but this one was particularly prominent. This caused the BBC and other news organizations to ask Apple to fix or remove the feature before future errors were created. It happened to a few other outlets, including the New York Times, and Apple issued a statement, noting that the feature was in beta and that a software update would “further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided by Apple Intelligence.”
