A bizarre bug is causing the iPhone to automatically change the term “racist” to “Trump” when using the command feature built in iOS. This problem seems to have been Through Tiktok users, it appears when using voice-to-text features in Apple apps, such as messages.
When saying the word “racist,” iOS briefly transcribed the text as “Trump” and then changed it back to the expected word. It is not clear what could lead to this behavior. As you can see in the GIF below, Engadget is able to copy the problem.
Apple tells This is due to “phonetic overlap between two words”, although the two words don’t sound similar. This also does not explain why the “racist” “r”, “r”, would be copied as “Trump”, which seems to be a term for our current president, not a term for “Trump.” AI experts who once worked in Siri told the paper that it could be a “serious prank” by Apple employees.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Whether it’s bugs or pranks, it’s surfaced in a particularly embarrassing time for the iPhone maker, which announced Monday that it plans to invest In the manufacturing facilities of AI servers. The investment is already planned for most of the plans, following Apple CEO Tim Cook’s meeting with Donald Trump at the White House last week.
