It appears that Apple Intelligence wrote a fake BBC article claiming that Luigi Mangione had shot himself

Apple Intelligence allegedly misled BBC News readers and BBC News is not happy about it.

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In a story reported by BBC News itself, the outlet blamed Apple’s AI features (including the ability to summarize news headlines with push notifications) for writing and sending blatantly false notifications to users. In this case, the push notification reads that Luigi Mangione, who was recently arrested in connection with the shooting of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, shot himself. That article is false, and no such incident has occurred at the time of publication.

“Luigi Mangione shot himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad will pay this money; South Korean police raid Yoon Suk Yeol’s office,” the statement read in full. It appears that Apple Intelligence has compiled three separate stories into one summary notice. Interestingly, only Mangione is wrong; others are accurate representations of the stories they refer to.

BBC News has complained to Apple about this, but Apple has yet to comment. Apple Intelligence was introduced to iPhones and other Apple devices earlier this year, and the feature set was greatly expanded with the launch of iOS 18.2 earlier this week. If Apple is going to continue experimenting with AI, it would be wise to clean up some of these issues before lawyers get involved.

Mashable has reached out to Apple for comment and will update when we hear back.