Apple’s extensive guidelines subcontractors use to evaluate Apple Intelligence have allegedly become politically motivated under the Trump administration, which Apple denies.
Training artificial intelligence models requires a lot of humans combing through potential prompts and results. One of Apple’s subcontractors out of Barcelona employs around 200 people to do just that, and their guidelines have been leaked.
According to a very pointed report from Politico, Apple’s guidelines were updated in March 2025, and when compared to the guidelines used across 2024, the changes appear politically motivated to appease President Trump.
Apple and the subcontractor Transperfect both deny a change in “policy,” which is the wording the report used. They didn’t deny that guidelines are updated regularly, with Transperfect sharing that they can change as often as 70 times in a year.
Apple’s statement to Politico: