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Phonetic overlap, my ass.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/26/apple-to-fix-iphone-dictation-bug-trump
Feb 26, 2025 2:46 PM
TheCunningLinguists
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Phonetic overlap, my ass.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/26/apple-to-fix-iphone-dictation-bug-trump
Niagaran
Why 'correct' it when it's right?
nojustsayitdont
Ah yes, that phonetic overlap. Racist and Trump sound so much alike. Similar to how 'boot' and 'razzle' sound the same. I get those mixed up all the time.
SavageDrums
Guess it was just offering up synonyms
PirateArrrgument
The phonetic overlap is in the things coming out of the mouths of both Trump and racists
PaddyPatrick
It’s a feature, not a bug
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
Apple to Break iPhone that replace the word Trump with Racist.
NooPogodi
Awe, that was the one good thing about them
AManWithoutNoName
President Trump => Agent Krasnov, Trump => Traitor, ...
nailpounder
more Germaine to the conversation is what are the odds this is a glitch? I grew up in the south bay, generally like apple....
IgnisInvictus
Phonetic overlap. That's what they're going with...
You know? Why not? The right plays the gaslight game all the freaking time, I'm okay with this one.
LebistusReticulatis
It understands synonyms. Great!
mmckee44
Someone screwed up here. That dictation app should be changing Trump to Krasnov.
RummageSaleBubbler
OMG, not not The Onion. Literally no way to tell anymore.
NoIWillNotFixYourComputerWhenIComeOverForDinner
DownvotesStarWars
But you're gonna power through it....
RaspK
«Oddly enough, our speech recognition software also replaces “Neonazi” with “Elon Musk.”»
AnythingMuchShorter
Is that anti trump? That seems to be his fans main response. E.g. "that's just trump being trump" makes sense in that context.
Rihn
Of all the bad lies they could make up, phonetic overlap was what they went with? There's not a single human being that believes this was the reason.
zeusfdelta
“Phonetically” they sound the same
SteveMND
There is NO phenetic overlap between "racist" and "Trump."
But there IS a lot of personal overlap between "racist" and "Trump."
n0n53n53
but they both have the letter 'r' in it ... or something
PalaverQuader
but when u say "trump" it does pretty much sound like "racist". just try.
SteveMND
Really, autocorrect? You thought I wanted phEnetic? Ugh, fine.
Yes, I'll admit that while there is no phOnetic overlap between the two, there quite assuredly is some phEnetic overlap.
Che07
Take your time with the phone as he cannot be fixed. Just impeached.
pleaseacknowledgethecat
What’s wrong exactly?
DisconnectedFromWhatIOnceEmbraced
Not a bug, this is a feature! 🧡
Bignholy
Gotta love the big fuckall water-guzzling, power munching AI "factory" in a state not well known for its plethora of water or stable power supply.
JFC.
algoritham
I'm guessing a rogue engineer deliberately did this, and I'm loving it.
TacoFox
It's not a bug it's a feature...
RummageSaleBubbler
The embedding for the words are quite similar; aka similar connotations.
Fun story, back some years ago, I trained two ML models on (1) the clean parts of Reddit, and (2) the "controversial" parts of Reddit.
The angel model though "MAGA" was related to martial arts (Krav Maga), and devil model thought "MAGA" was related to all forms of racism.
FrolickingFrolicking
“The embedding of the words are similar”, what does this statement mean exactly? And Since when is “embedding” a synonym for “similar connotations”?
Why would speech recognition go by embedding and while ignoring phonetics?
And if that was true why are they claiming phonetic overlap? “Speech recogntion” doesn’t just insert a different word based on context.
RummageSaleBubbler
I don't know why they are claiming phonetic overlap. Seems odd as they don't sound similar.
Sorrontis
oh. that's not a bug. that's as passive (maybe active) resistance to a fascist. someone at apple is pretty based
IdiotSavantTinker
Resistance takes a lot of forms.
BHPaperstacks
Maybe. It might also just be the oversight that an MLM that was used to create their autocorrect came up with due to the words' frequent appearance together in written media.
PuzzledCompletely
Also, once AI 'learns' something wrong, it is very hard for it to unlearn it. (Not unlike some people.)
kriswinters
Hmmmm...if only we can turn the corporations and the fascists against each other.
ravnicrasol
The trick is to pick and empower the corporations that would see decline under the fascists. The only way they maintain their power is if all economic interests are made to align with theirs, therefore, do your best to diversify the economy. Mega magnate #1 can't get alliances to get a fascism going if mega magnate #2-3-4-5 see no benefit in such a thing.
rukeman
But, but they're in love.
MaleProstateMilker88
They're the same thing.
Velv3tThunder
That's not a bug, that's a feature. Ticket closed.
enygma6
I remember when Microsoft Word would offer "I'll drink to that" as a spelling correction option if you typed in "I'd like Bill Clinton to resign."
I don't remember hearing any conservatives complaining about that.
Coltaine
Seems like it was working correctly.
NoNameFred
Are you sure? Looks more like someone installed it backwards to me...
ShiftingPattern
Honestly? I'm guessing "Trump" and "Racist" probably fully align in most vector spaces...
Jewdakris
Maybe the AI is better than we thought
Madalchemist2018
Just like the software that kept flagging RWNJs' (GOP politicians) comments as hate speech for moderation.
enygma6
Maybe those R's shouldn't have been posting hate speech if they didn't want to get flagged for it.