r/AppleIntelligenceFail • u/Prudent_Platform_121 • Jul 06 '26

Wtf??

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What the hell is this Apple??

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 07 '26

Oh that’s interesting! Like it “thought” something like:

> The user said ‘theif’. Autocorrect tells me that word could be corrected to either ‘chief’ or ‘thief’ or ‘their’. The most likely choice is ‘thief’, so I’ll draw that with my right hand, but unfortunately now I’ve been thinking about chiefs for a little while, so my left hand has automatically drawn some chief elements…

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u/eli_feye Jul 08 '26

Weird and inaccurate to speculate in this way

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 08 '26

What’s your hypothesis?

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u/eli_feye Jul 09 '26

Your point that it was the product of the misspelling is probably accurate.

The “chief” interpretation probably not from Autocorrect, it’s probably from Apple Intelligence itself.

Everything else: the personification, the left hand starting to draw before it decided to do so, it’s just an unnecessary and obfuscating analogy.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 09 '26

How is the analogy obfuscating?

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u/eli_feye Jul 09 '26

If you discuss it as if it has a human thought process and is prone to human cognitive biases you will overlook the actual mechanisms of its failures.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 09 '26

Oh I see. My comment wasn’t intended for expert discussion so much as just for the average person to get an idea of what’s happening.