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Apple’s Voice Dictation Reportedly Substitutes ‘Trump’ for ‘Racist’ Due to Speech Recognition Bug
- Occurred
- Feb 25, 2025
- Published
- Feb 25, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Apple
Deployers
- Apple
Harmed parties
- Apple users
- Donald Trump
Tags
- Voice dictation
- Potential prank
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Speech recognition bug in Apple's AI causing inappropriate word substitution, acknowledged and fixed by company.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8