Description: Apple's iPhone dictation feature reportedly displayed "Trump" when users dictated the word "racist," with a viral video demonstrating the glitch. Apple acknowledged the bug, attributing it to a phonetic overlap in its speech recognition model, though some speculated it could be an internal prank. The company announced an immediate fix.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Apple and iPhone developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Apple users and Donald Trump.
Alleged implicated AI system: iPhone
Incident Stats
Incident ID
952
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-02-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline

Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that briefly displays “Trump” when someone says the word “racist.” The Verge has been unable to reproduce the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a vid…
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