Apple confirmed it's working to fix a glitch as viral TikTok videos showed iPhones briefly displaying "Trump" when users dictate the word "racist."
In one video, a person speaks the word "racist" into the voice-to-text feature of his messaging app. The phone processes, briefly flashes the word "Trump," then corrects to another word. Several NBC reporters replicated the glitch on their own devices.
The problem ignited conspiracy theorists including Alex Jones, who took to X Tuesday to share he had "caught apple carrying out a vicious, subliminal attack on president Trump."
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"When you voice note the word racist on APPLE text the word Trump pops up and then disappears," he said. "Try it yourself folks, this attack is NEXT LEVEL EVIL. We are surrounded by deep state deception, only the truth will bring us victory."
Apple said its engineers were trying to fix the problem.
"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 told media outlets in a statement Tuesday.
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The company said the glitch can occur during an initial analysis when its speech recognition models, which power dictation, initially display words with some phonetic overlap. The programs then later land on the correct word.
The glitch comes as tech billionaires including Apple CEO Tim Cook cozy up to President Donald Trump in the opening months of his second term.
Social media onlookers quickly condemned Cook after he joined other ultra-wealthy executives in donating to Trump's inauguration.
The latest kerfuffle comes less than a year after Apple apologized over an ad for its iPad, which caused an uproar for showing an industrial press crushing objects linked to human creativity. Social media users slammed the ad, posted on X by Cook, as tone-deaf as artists feared for their fates amid the emergence of generative artificial intelligence.
