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Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

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75% Informative

Apple Intelligence is Apple 's long-awaited suite of AI features, which began to roll out last month .

The feature uses AI to summarize iPhone notifications.

The trouble is that Apple Intelligence doesn’t seem to be very intelligent.

Sometimes the text summaries are alarmingly inaccurate, as with the false obituary.

Much of the delight of text messaging comes from the distinctiveness of the individual voices of the people we are talking to.

When texts are fed through the AI -summarization machine, each distinct voice is bludgeoned into monotony.

For a company that prides itself on perfection, the failures of Apple 's notification summaries feel distinctly un-Apple .

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