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

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Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”. The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on TikTok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word “Trump” when they said “racist”, and was later repeated by others on social media. “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers dictation and we are rolling out a fix,” an Apple spokesperson said. The company blamed the bug on its tool displaying words that…

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