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Apple fixing bug in iPhone speech-to-text glitch which interprets 'racist' as 'Trump'


The fault has been linked to people speaking "words with some phonetic overlap", according to Apple, which is rolling out an update.

The US technology giant said it is working on fixing the bug which has triggered outrage from Trump supporters and conservative commentators, including Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. "We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers dictation and we are rolling out a fix today," a spokesperson for Apple said in a statement on Tuesday. Meta has faced criticism after users on its social platforms claimed they have been made to automatically follow pages for Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance.

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