Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail
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Louise Littlejohn said she was shocked and then laughed when she received the error strewn voicemail transcription.

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.~

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      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.

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      52·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        It’s basically only like six people who are actually to blame. I don’t see why the rest of us need to be tared by the same brush.

        I’ve never trained an AI on anything. I don’t know how to, or care to.

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          We get to join the idiots, because even when some of us want to, we don’t seem to have the ability to stop them.