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Last month, Apple Intelligenceproduced an embarrassing hallucination about the news story that everyone was talking about.

It claimed that Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had killed himself.

Apple Intelligence installation screen shown on iPhone 15 Pro Max.

This week, Apple Intelligence producedtwo more embarrassing errors for BBC app users.

Rafael Nadal who is Spanish hadnt come out.

A BBC spokesperson was understandably irked by this.

Apple Intelligence on white background

TakeGooglesearch, for example.

With Apple Intelligence pushing these summaries to millions of users at the same time, its a bit different.

Thats especially true when, unlike search summaries, notifications are designed to encourage clickthrough.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity

Hopefully these early mistakes will make people a bit more skeptical of the wisdom of accepting AI shortcuts.

If so, oddly, these high-profile embarrassments for Apple might be doing the world a big favor.

Apple Intelligence on an iPhone screen

ChatGPT generated image

Gemini gif

Student at desk

the plaud notepin, an AI dictaphone, in silver. it�s a pill shaped device at just 2 inches long and can be worn as a watch, necklace, clip, or pin thanks to the magnetic panel

Using an under-desk elliptical while working seated at a desk

iPhone 16 colors hands-on.

Michael B. Jordan as Smoke in "Sinners" movie

Recipes in the food section of Apple News Plus on an iPhone

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

iOS 16 Fitness app on an iPhone 12

Fire TV interface on the Fire TV Stick 4K (2nd gen)