Apple says a bug caused iPhone voice-to-text feature to write 'Trump' when a user says 'racist'

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  Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

  Tech company blames ‘phonetic overlap’ for problem where US president’s name appears. Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had ...
  
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  iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’

  The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.
  
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  Apple promises to fix dictation bug that replaces ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

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  Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'

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  Inc. - Feb. 19

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