In Apple’s launch event for the iPhone 16 yesterday, I was not thrilled with the amount of emphasis they put on the new “Apple Intelligence” features. But I did think that if those features work well, some of them could be pretty useful.
Unfortunately, this review makes me even more dubious.
“In the preview I’m using, Apple Intelligence does an uncomfortable amount of making things up.”
“like the time it alerted me that Donald Trump had endorsed Tim Walz for president. (Ha.) And the time it made up the idea that I’m teaching at UC Berkeley. (No.) And the time it elevated an obvious Social Security scam to my ‘priority’ inbox. (Yikes). And the time it edited a selfie to make me bald. (Double yikes.)”
“it feels weird […] to see fabrications and misinterpretations of your life appear on your lock screen, inbox and other core parts of your iPhone.”
“I told Apple about the many times I saw Apple Intelligence get facts wrong (I’ve had at least five to 10 laugh-out-loud moments per day). It says it is working to improve accuracy. But so is every other AI company — and that has proved to be a giant challenge.”