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Grandmother gets a shock after Apple's AI calls her a 'piece of s***'

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60% Informative

Louise Littlejohn , 66 , from Dunfermline , Scotland , received an innocuous voicemail.

It asked if she had 'been able to have sex' and called her a 'piece of s

' The actual voicemail had invited the grandmother to an upcoming event.

Apple 's AI-powered Visual Voicemail tool gives users text transcriptions of voice calls.

It may have struggled with the worker's Scottish accent or background noise.

VR Score

47

Informative language

38

Neutral language

4

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

45

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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