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A woman from Dunfermline has spoken of her shock after an Apple voice-to-text service mistakenly inserted a reference to sex - and an apparent insult - into a message left by a garage.
~The is what Mrs Littlejohn saw on the voicemail screen in the Phone app on her iPhone after receiving a voicemail from the garage.~
This article is click bate written to hook on to the buzz / drama around Apple intelligence.
This feature is almost 20 years old. Visual Voicemail was one of the early “holy shit” features that the first iPhone launched with.
I’m sure the model has changed a lot in 2 decades, but weird voicemail transcriptions are not new. We’ve all experienced these for decades.
I love how it's apparently worse because she's a "grandmother".
Everyone knows that grandparents have never had sex and should be protected from such obscenity
I find it weird that we feel a need to protect the elderly from obscenities. When it's their depravity and rabid lust that brought the rest of us here.
It's worse because she's a Karen with no sense of humour
I was getting screwed up voicemail speech to text way before AI. 🤷
But now it can boil the oceans faster by a few dozen orders of magnitude!
It's training that uses a tremendous amount of power.
Speech-to-text transcribing of voicemails is done on-device and uses basically zero energy.
Gods, we are so stupid.
The human species survived alongside countless others for tens of thousands of years. It has taken us roughly two or three generations to fuck it all up in the relentless pursuit of profit.
That [redacted] is so [redacted], what [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] wrong with people?
I love the jank message summaries
I got one the other day that summarized a message from my 75 year old mom as a conspiracy theory. I can’t imagine having the confidence to mark a clients message as a conspiracy theory even if it 100% was.
Here’s the summary:
Conspiracy theory about government agencies being privatized for profit.
Original text:
They would turned it into a private owned so they can profit from it. That's why they changing all the government agencies and turn it into profitable businesses for them. See how all the big corporations are lined up with trump.
Surely people see this for what it is, a censorship mechanism that relies on people's laziness and preference for convenience for effectiveness.
Even if Apple Intelligence were good, why would anyone in their right mind allow a middleman to interfere with their ability to communicate with others?
What is this world coming to, even Mom™ is being privatized
MomCorp was taken!
Jam a bastard in it, you crap!
And people wonder why I have no interest in getting a newer phone with an AI thing on it.
Visual Voicemail has been a thing for literal decades. The older ai models (before they were called such) were even more jank
That's hilarious! I'm glad you and your Conspiracy Theorist Trademark Mom can get a laugh out of it!
I guess technically it's still a theory even if it's true
Yeah like I can’t say it’s not a conspiracy theory (that I agree with) but marking it is still very… bold?
