Failed Experiment Apple has temporarily halted its disastrous “Apple Intelligence” feature which consistently bungled its one task of summarizing breaking news alerts. An upcoming iOS 18.3 update will disable the summaries for news and entertainment apps, as the Washington Post’s Geoffrey Fowler reports. Apple’s admission that its feature has failed is rare for the iPhone maker, and signals the egregiousness of the disaster: for over a month, the company’s feature has been consistently botching the news reporting of real publications and pushing them to the company’s untold millions of users. Earlier this week, Fowler found that a recent push notification by the feature “got every fact wrong in its AI summary” of a story about Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. “It’s wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn’t turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing,” Fowler wrote in his post on Bluesky. Pathological AI Apple seems to have listened, a change serving as a tacit admission of nagging issues plaguing large language model-based products. Despite several years of being in development, tools like Apple’s summarizing tool are still struggling with “hallucinations,” a problem some experts believe could be intrinsic to the tech. Apple hasn’t entirely given up on the feature, though, promising to bring it back after making changes. In December, the BBC filed a complaint with the tech giant after the feature consistently botched summaries of its news reporting, going so far as to falsely state that Luigi Mangione, the man suspected of…Apple Halts Disastrous AI System That Was Making Up Fake News Stories and Pushing Them to iPhone Users