{"id":7071,"date":"2025-02-26T00:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/iphones-swap-racist-for-trump-due-to-glitch\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T00:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:59:27","slug":"iphones-swap-racist-for-trump-due-to-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/iphones-swap-racist-for-trump-due-to-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhones swap &#8216;racist&#8217; for &#8216;Trump&#8217; due to glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<h1>iPhone Bug Automatically Changes &quot;Racist&quot; to &quot;Trump&quot; in Dictation Feature<\/h1>\n<p>A strange glitch has been discovered in iPhones, where the built-in dictation feature in iOS changes the word &quot;racist&quot; to &quot;Trump&quot; before reverting back to the original word. This issue was first noticed by users on TikTok and occurs when using voice-to-text in Apple apps such as Messages.<\/p>\n<p>When a user speaks the word &quot;racist,&quot; the iOS briefly transcribes it as &quot;Trump&quot; before correcting it to the intended word. The reason behind this behavior is unclear, and it has been successfully replicated by Engadget, as shown in the GIF below.<\/p>\n<h2>Visual Representation of the Issue<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 861px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:97%\">\n        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview has-width\" alt=\"Racist briefly transcribes as \" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/LjTjpzyy52mkxc0SWXbexw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTkzMw--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2025-02\/bfdab6e0-f3ca-11ef-b7f7-b5067b030f9d\" height=\"861\" width=\"886\"\/><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Racist briefly transcribes as \" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/LjTjpzyy52mkxc0SWXbexw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTkzMw--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2025-02\/bfdab6e0-f3ca-11ef-b7f7-b5067b030f9d\" height=\"861\" width=\"886\" class=\"caas-img has-width\"\/>\n      <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Apple&#8217;s Response<\/h2>\n<p>Apple has attributed the issue to &quot;phonetic overlap between the two words,&quot; despite the fact that &quot;racist&quot; and &quot;Trump&quot; do not sound similar. This explanation also fails to clarify why &quot;racist&quot; (with a lowercase &quot;r&quot;) would transcribe as &quot;Trump&quot; (seemingly referencing the current president) rather than &quot;trump&quot; (the noun). An AI expert who previously worked on Siri has suggested that it could be a &quot;serious prank&quot; by an Apple employee.<\/p>\n<h2>Apple&#8217;s Investment in AI Servers<\/h2>\n<p>The timing of this bug&#8217;s discovery is particularly embarrassing for Apple, as the company announced plans to invest $500 billion in manufacturing facilities for AI servers in the US over the next four years. This investment, which was largely already planned, follows a meeting between Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump at the White House last week. Apple has not responded to a request for comment on the matter.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/iphones-are-briefly-changing-racist-to-trump-due-to-an-ios-dictation-issue-230712021.html?src=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone Bug Automatically Changes &quot;Racist&quot; to &quot;Trump&quot; in Dictation Feature A strange glitch has been discovered in iPhones, where the built-in dictation feature in iOS changes the word &quot;racist&quot; to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[69,64,595,68,63],"class_list":["post-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-apple","tag-gear","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/e266f8d0-6f0a-11ef-b3ae-35bd36ca7e3f.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}