Apple said Monday it will release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence.
“A software update next week will clarify when the displayed text is a summary provided by Apple Intelligence. We encourage users to report concerns if they see an unexpected notification summary,” an Apple spokesperson said in a statement.
Apple's notification summaries are helpful, but they can be quite wrong. Summary is sometimes funnyBut they are often the cause mild confusion. The BBC made such allegations last month The attribute misrepresented a titleThe brief states that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shot himself.
In an interview last year, Dr The Wall Street JournalCraig Federighi, Apple's SVP of software engineering, said Apple Intelligence does not summarize notifications it deems sensitive.
Tech companies are figuring out how to better label AI-generated content. Last year, there was Meta Change the labeling for the image Posts on its social networks were then created or edited using AI Photographers complained That they didn't use AI tools to edit their photos. Google has also started Added disclosure for images created using its AI tools.