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.~

  • Ghostalmedia
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    3015 hours ago

    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.

    • @TORFdot0
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      78 hours ago

      Everyone knows that grandparents have never had sex and should be protected from such obscenity

    • grooving
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      1915 hours ago

      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.

      • Echo Dot
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        111 minutes ago

        I always think this is funny because it reminds me of my grandfather’s diary. It mostly consists of various girl’s names and their address, then every now and then “get haircut”.

  • @db2
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    3819 hours ago

    I was getting screwed up voicemail speech to text way before AI. 🤷

      • @TheGrandNagus
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        27 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        316 hours 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
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          18 minutes 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.

  • @x00z
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    2718 hours ago

    That [redacted] is so [redacted], what [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] wrong with people?

  • @Graphy
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    1618 hours ago

    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.

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    • @[email protected]
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      110 hours ago

      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?

      • Echo Dot
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        12 minutes ago

        At one point my dad got into the habit of sending me “interesting little facts” every morning via text. I think he had installed some interesting facts app and he was just forwarding them onto me.

        The Apple summaries those were interesting. One of them got summarized as “there is a dead body in your house” and the interesting fact was " in England there are many lost graveyards, oftentimes during construction bodies will be uncovered and the police get called, only to find that it’s a medieval grave site".

    • @Zak
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      416 hours ago

      And people wonder why I have no interest in getting a newer phone with an AI thing on it.

      • Blaster M
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        112 hours ago

        Visual Voicemail has been a thing for literal decades. The older ai models (before they were called such) were even more jank

    • @[email protected]
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      618 hours ago

      That’s hilarious! I’m glad you and your Conspiracy Theorist Trademark Mom can get a laugh out of it!

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      218 hours ago

      I guess technically it’s still a theory even if it’s true

      • @Graphy
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        Yeah like I can’t say it’s not a conspiracy theory (that I agree with) but marking it is still very… bold?