The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging Apple to remove its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news stories after it produced a false headline from the BBC.

Apple Intelligence is coming after intense scrutiny after creating a false headline in relation to a BBC story. It comes after a similar incident with the New York Times back in November. Apple has been asked to scrap a key feature of its Apple Intelligence AI platform after a major incident saw a false BBC headline appear on user handsets.

Apple has only just begun rolling out a much-hyped suite of AI features for its devices, and we are already seeing major problems. Case in point, the BBC has complained to Apple after an AI-powered notification summary rewrote a BBC headline to say the UHC CEO’s murderer Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

"Luigi Mangione shoots himself; Syrian mother hopes Assad pays the price; South Korea police raid Yoon Suk Yeol's office," the notification read in full. Apple Intelligence appear

Although AI has become an indispensable tool in technology and in most media, it is still far from being totally reliable without human fact-checking.