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BBC says it has complained to Apple over AI-generated fake news attributed to broadcaster. Notifications from a new Apple product falsely suggested the BBC claimed the New York gunman Luigi Mangione had killed himself

Notifications from a new Apple product falsely suggested the BBC claimed the New York gunman Luigi Mangione had killed himself

The BBC says it has filed a complaint with the US tech giant Apple over AI-generated fake news that was shared on iPhones and attributed to the broadcaster. One of those suggested that the BBC News website had published an article claiming that Luigi Mangione, who was arrested in the US over the murder of a healthcare executive in New York, had committed suicide. The BBC reported that a similar incident had occurred in relation to notifications attributed to the New York Times, though that was unconfirmed by the US publisher.

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