The UK’s BBC has complained about Apple’s notification summarization feature in iOS 18 completely fabricating the gist of an article. Here’s what happened, and why.
Examples of notification summaries in iOS 18.1
Examples of notification summaries in iOS 18.1
The introduction of Apple Intelligence included summarization features, saving users time by offering key points of a document or a collection of notifications. On Friday, the summarization of notifications was a big problem for one major news outlet.
The BBC has complained to Apple about how the summarization misinterprets news headlines and comes up with the wrong conclusion when producing summaries. A spokesperson said Apple was contacted to “raise this concern and fix the problem.”