The suspect in a high-profile US murder case had shot himself, according to Apple's false AI summary of a BBC report.

Apple, X’s Grok, and Google have all faced scrutiny in 2024 for the misleading nature of some of their AI-generated news summaries.

One of the features of Apple Intelligence is its ability to summarize notifications, which was first introduced in iOS 18.1. Cupertino says the summaries allow users

Apple has only just begun rolling out a much-hyped suite of AI features for its devices, and we are already seeing major problems. Case in point, the BBC has complained to Apple after an AI-powered notification summary rewrote a BBC headline to say the UHC CEO’s murderer Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

Claim Denied Apple's generative AI should be making headlines. Instead, it's making them up. Just days after its launch in the UK, the tech company's Apple Intelligence model blurted out a totally fabricated headline about Luigi Mangione,

Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

"Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office," the notification read in full. Apple Intelligence appear

Just a week after its debut in the UK, Apple Intelligence has encountered a controversy involving hallucinations, prompting a formal complaint from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The issue arose when a piece of fabricated,

The BBC said that the AI-generated summary of a notification falsely claimed that UnitedHealthcare suspect Luigi Mangione had died by suicide.

The BBC has filed a complaint with Apple over the fake news alert that was shared on iPhones and falsely attributed to the broadcasting service.

Apple's AI feature, Apple Intelligence, faces criticism after misattributing fake news to the BBC, raising concerns about generative AI's reliability in journalism and its impact on public trust in digital news.