Apple accused of spreading 'fake news' about Luigi Mangione
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Apple has been accused of spreading fake news about Luigi Mangione. The British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) has filed a complaint after the tech giant's new Apple Intelligence generated a misleading summary of a BBC news article about the alleged assassin.
![[The notification read: 'Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office,' in reference to three articles that had supposedly been published by the BBC]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/21/93250885-14203139-image-a-27_1734471030831.jpg)
The summary suggested that Mangione had shot himself. It read: 'Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office,' in reference to three articles that had supposedly been published by the BBC.
![[The New York Times suffered from a similar mistake in November. The AI grouped three articles together in one notification, with the first part reading 'Netanyahu arrested']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/21/93249431-14203139-image-a-20_1734469786210.jpg)
The summarized notifications feature is a part of Apple Intelligence, Apple's new AI system which launched in the UK on December 11. Notification summaries appear at the top of a stack of notifications from the same app and are supposed to give the user an overview of things they missed.
![[Numerous iPhone users have shared screenshots of notification summaries that are inaccurate and sometimes downright nonsensical]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/21/93249435-14203139-image-a-21_1734469788587.jpg)
After identifying the error, a spokesperson for the BBC contacted Apple 'to raise this concern and fix the problem,' according to the broadcaster. The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate Mangione is alive and in jail in Pennsylvania, awaiting an extradition hearing after being charged with shooting and killing UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson.
![[The notification summaries feature will summarize texts, too, sometimes with alarming inaccuracy]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/21/93249437-14203139-image-a-22_1734469792376.jpg)
The British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) has filed a complaint to Apple after the tech giant's AI generated a false headline stating Luigi Mangione shot himself. The notification read: 'Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office,' in reference to three articles that had supposedly been published by the BBC.
