PJ Vogt

Alex started to dissect what might be happening behind the scenes with the audio message and the troublesome ampersand. And his explanation pointed to an additional culprit that never would have crossed my mind. That culprit? AI. It turns out AI is part of the process involved in sending an audio message.

Alex started to dissect what might be happening behind the scenes with the audio message and the troublesome ampersand. And his explanation pointed to an additional culprit that never would have crossed my mind. That culprit? AI. It turns out AI is part of the process involved in sending an audio message.

When you receive an audio message, you see the actual waveform of the audio, where you can click play and listen. But below it, you also get the transcript of what's in the audio. And Alex noted that this transcript is a relatively new trick from Apple, enabled by artificial intelligence.

When you receive an audio message, you see the actual waveform of the audio, where you can click play and listen. But below it, you also get the transcript of what's in the audio. And Alex noted that this transcript is a relatively new trick from Apple, enabled by artificial intelligence.

When you receive an audio message, you see the actual waveform of the audio, where you can click play and listen. But below it, you also get the transcript of what's in the audio. And Alex noted that this transcript is a relatively new trick from Apple, enabled by artificial intelligence.

So when I do a message, and I want to be very careful with the words they listen, because I feel like it is a big part of people's theories in this that I've spoken to so far. But when you say they listen, you mean I talk into the phone, An AI that's either, I don't know, on my phone in the cloud?

So when I do a message, and I want to be very careful with the words they listen, because I feel like it is a big part of people's theories in this that I've spoken to so far. But when you say they listen, you mean I talk into the phone, An AI that's either, I don't know, on my phone in the cloud?

So when I do a message, and I want to be very careful with the words they listen, because I feel like it is a big part of people's theories in this that I've spoken to so far. But when you say they listen, you mean I talk into the phone, An AI that's either, I don't know, on my phone in the cloud?

So the AI that's on the phone is like, quote unquote, listening to my message, turning it into text so that when I send people long voice memos, they can actually skip them and just read it. And that's sort of new. That's new. Apple started offering these auto-transcriptions in their fall 2023 update, iOS 17.

So the AI that's on the phone is like, quote unquote, listening to my message, turning it into text so that when I send people long voice memos, they can actually skip them and just read it. And that's sort of new. That's new. Apple started offering these auto-transcriptions in their fall 2023 update, iOS 17.

So the AI that's on the phone is like, quote unquote, listening to my message, turning it into text so that when I send people long voice memos, they can actually skip them and just read it. And that's sort of new. That's new. Apple started offering these auto-transcriptions in their fall 2023 update, iOS 17.

And the fact that these transcriptions are AI-generated is important because, Alex pointed out, there have been issues with some of Apple's newly released AI features, particularly since their most recent update, which shipped one month before the first report of this Dave & Buster's anomaly, iOS 18.

And the fact that these transcriptions are AI-generated is important because, Alex pointed out, there have been issues with some of Apple's newly released AI features, particularly since their most recent update, which shipped one month before the first report of this Dave & Buster's anomaly, iOS 18.

And the fact that these transcriptions are AI-generated is important because, Alex pointed out, there have been issues with some of Apple's newly released AI features, particularly since their most recent update, which shipped one month before the first report of this Dave & Buster's anomaly, iOS 18.

Or it'll say, like, oftentimes I just get inaccurate ones where it will try to do an italicized summary of a text message or a headline, and it'll say something that sounds incredibly alarming. And then when I click through, I'm like, oh, no, the AI is just confused.

Or it'll say, like, oftentimes I just get inaccurate ones where it will try to do an italicized summary of a text message or a headline, and it'll say something that sounds incredibly alarming. And then when I click through, I'm like, oh, no, the AI is just confused.

Or it'll say, like, oftentimes I just get inaccurate ones where it will try to do an italicized summary of a text message or a headline, and it'll say something that sounds incredibly alarming. And then when I click through, I'm like, oh, no, the AI is just confused.

So this is where the ampersand comes in. The iPhone's AI model takes the audio of me saying Dave and Buster's and tries to turn it into a transcript that writes Dave and Buster's with an ampersand. But that breaks something. The iPhone perhaps thinks this ampersand represents here not human language, but a random misplaced bit of computer code.

So this is where the ampersand comes in. The iPhone's AI model takes the audio of me saying Dave and Buster's and tries to turn it into a transcript that writes Dave and Buster's with an ampersand. But that breaks something. The iPhone perhaps thinks this ampersand represents here not human language, but a random misplaced bit of computer code.

So this is where the ampersand comes in. The iPhone's AI model takes the audio of me saying Dave and Buster's and tries to turn it into a transcript that writes Dave and Buster's with an ampersand. But that breaks something. The iPhone perhaps thinks this ampersand represents here not human language, but a random misplaced bit of computer code.