No, Apple isn’t subliminally calling Trump a racist with its iPhone dictation feature

Conspiracy theorists believe Apple may have coded speech-to-text to briefly showing “Trump” when the word “racist” is said. That’s not true, but there’s a reason that it’s happening.

Machine learning algorithms can be fickle things. Apple’s on-device dictation is still run by machine learning algorithms built with massive data sets trained on user inputs.

The problem with teaching any algorithm anything is that they are very predisposed to relying on pattern matching. In the decade Donald Trump has been in the public eye, there has likely been an increase in the word “racist” appearing near “Trump.”

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