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Apple Intelligence Reportedly Notified Users That Luigi Mangione Shot Himself and Benjamin Netanyahu Had Been Arrested

Occurred
Dec 13, 2024
Published
Jan 16, 2025
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Apple Intelligence reportedly sent push notifications falsely claiming that BBC News had reported Luigi Mangione's suicide and that The New York Times had reported Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest. On 1/16/2025, Apple reportedly disabled Apple Intelligence's notification summaries.

Developers

  • Apple

Deployers

  • Apple

Harmed parties

  • The New York Times
  • Luigi Mangione
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
  • BBC News
  • Apple Intelligence users

Tags

  • response

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: Apple Intelligence hallucinated false news about public figures, representing a language model failure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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