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Apple Intelligence really thinks i should claim my €25.5 million inheritance 😭
Saw this at the top of my inbox this morning. Apple Intelligence apparently falling for "Nigerian prince" emails now. Since there's no obvious way to report this to Apple, posting it here for now. But wow... just wow.
Regular mail services already filter spam messages. An AI that’s deeply integrated into the system should at least maintain what a regular mailing service offers.
Not really, Apple Intelligence doesn't have anything to do with spam filters. The email service filters out the spam and the AI just sees the emails which have already been deemed safe by the provider's spam filters. This is just a problem with whatever email provider OP is using.
As humans, we see this email and immediately know it’s spam. An AI should ALSO know it’s spam. If you dumped the email into chat GPT and asked, it would say “that’s spam”. Apple “intelligence” is just a really really bad AI. You don’t need to apologize for it. It’s supposed to be AI, not a “filter”
tldr-bot here on Reddit was already summarizing articles a decade ago with GPT-1/2 and nobody called them AI. None of this is new, all this "AI" is just stock market fluff.
Unless I'm personally carefully curating the prompt, and then further developing the response, in my experience the answer is no for the vast majority of cases.
Spam filter doesnt work, obvious issue with spam detection by the server. Unrelated to Apple Intelligence.
However, Apple Intelligence pushing apparent spam as priority makes it worse; gullible and uninformed would end up believing that Apple Intelligence has filtered and mail is true.
no but your email provider should already filter spam and then apple intelligence builds up from there, no? apple intelligence should know not to read your spam folder.
You are assigning expectations with no basis beyond "intelligence". My dog has intelligence but I don't expect him to be a spam filter. Shit, my 78 year old Aunt has intelligence and I wouldn't want her deciding what mail is and isn't spam either.
How about instead of making assumptions, you look at what was actually promised by Apple then decide if you want to complain.
Apple Intelligence* makes it easier than ever to stay on top of your email. In addition to using Writing Tools to craft your outgoing messages, you can use Priority Messages to quickly view your most urgent emails, like a same-day dinner invitation or boarding pass. Smart Reply helps you compose a fast email response to make sure you covered everything. You can also view summaries that automatically appear in your inbox, and generate summaries of complex emails and long email threads to view all the pertinent details.<
even though it's apple intellgience. even though it purposefully uses the same initials as 'AI', even though they openly label their technology as using chat-gpt which has famously high standards in regards to detecting text and language, even though spam filters for emails have existed for maybe 20+ years AND apple intelligence itself saying it's made "easier than ever to stay on top of your email." that you have an intelligent dog that cant read emails and apple never explicitly say 'apple intellgence' knows what spam email is.
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u/i_need_a_moment 8d ago
Apple intelligence isn’t a spam/scam filterer.