IOS Apple errors with news alerts are accumulating, here is the latest update.

The summaries of Apple's intelligence notifications, in my opinion, are one of the first AI killer features. But they are not without imperfections, as the BBC has continued to highlight through several new examples today. Here are the latest errors from Apple’s Intelligence with news alerts.

BBC News highlights persistent errors from Apple’s Intelligence

Recently, the BBC officially expressed its concerns regarding Apple concerning its new intelligence notification summary feature.

Added in iOS 18.1, this feature allows Apple's Intelligence to summarize information from a notification rather than providing the actual written content.

Apple’s Intelligence is currently available in beta, so they say you should expect errors and report them so that the system can continue to be improved.

The BBC takes this information seriously. The December example involved the AI falsely stating through a summary alert from BBC News that Luigi Mangione had shot himself. This was entirely false.

Today, Imran Rahman-Jones of the BBC has published several additional examples of Apple intelligence errors reported by his users (via AppleInsider).

An Apple news summary falsely claimed that professional darts player Luke Littler had won the women’s world championship (PDC) – before he even played in the final rounds.

The incorrect summary was written by artificial intelligence (AI) and is based on a BBC story according to which Littler won the semi-final of the tournament this evening.

In the following hours, another AI notification falsely informed some users of the BBC Sport app that famous tennis player Rafael Nadal had come out sexually.

There are surely many more examples than users have seen, so I wouldn't be surprised if stories like this become more common.

News summaries are prone to errors for all types of apps, but they can particularly present problems when used to summarize major news.

Simplifying a summary that is already a summary seems a bit superfluous at first glance, so I wonder if Apple's ultimate solution will be to disable AI summaries by default for news apps.

Do you think these Apple intelligence errors are a serious problem? How did you find the summaries in your experience? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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