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Siri AI and The Spam Call Problem

Listening to podcasts after each WWDC is always a bit of information overload, but occasionally you catch a bit of analysis that seems perhaps pertinent. 

One of the podcasts I listen to his John Gruber’s Talk Show Live event that he’s been hosting for a few years now. After his infamous Something Is Wrong In The State of Cupertino post last year, Apple execs stayed away after having been guests in years previous. They stayed away this year as well.

This year, like last, Gruber put together a panel that featured The Verge’s Nilay Patel and Joanna Stern, formerly of The Wall Street Journal, now with her own gig, New Things With Joanna Stern. This year and last offered excellent commentary by both, and given the wait and see cynical posture I’ve adopted for all of Apple’s upcoming offerings, worth a listen. 

One interesting tidbit stood out that I want to highlight in the context of my ongoing complaints and requests to Apple about making the handling of spam and unwanted phone calls easier. 

Joanna seemed to be quite impressed with what she’s seen of Siri AI in the early going, citing a number of examples that she tried out during the event. The one that stood out to me is this:

I said, “What could I do that’s fun near the California Theater? I have some time to to kill,” and I don’t know if… I don’t know exactly what was the prompt or what was the thing, but it started suggesting things I could do locally. But also, it had access to my voicemail, so it knew that I had just gotten a message from my uncle who asked me to speak at his book club, and it said, “You… you could get back to my your uncle about his book club engagement, you would have some time to do that.” Okay, that’s crazy. It really is, right? And but what if that was sensitive information, right?

The key is Siri AI having access to voice mail. Regardless of however you feel about what data and info Siri AI needs to have about you to develop “Personal Context,” if Siri AI has access to your voice mail it seems it should be a relatively easy technological hop, skip, and jump to just automatically delete the flood of spam calls that have already figured out ways around any of the current wack-a-mole tricks that are being used. 

Obviously the larger point Joanna makes about “Personal Context” and a new level of trust is spot on, and one many iPhone users will have to reckon with. But I’ll tell you this, if Siri AI can automatically banish to digital hell all of the fake calls that now use names to try and circumvent current spam call prevention I’ll be grateful. 

The only reasons I can think of for Siri AI (or Google’s Gemini on Android phones) are business reasons and relationships with the mobile carriers. Apple’s “Personal Context” or Google’s “Personal Intelligence” are the names of the game, or so they claim. It seems logical to me that the technology exists to eradicate more of this curse that same technology makes possible and we all are prey to, whether it be phone calls, emails, or texts. 

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Apple pagará 250 millones por demanda sobre inteligencia artificial en iPhone

Apple pagará 250 millones de dólares para cerrar una demanda por publicidad engañosa de su IA.

SN Redacción | EFE

Nueva York.- El gigante tecnológico Apple aceptó pagar 250 millones de dólares para resolver una demanda colectiva en Estados Unidos que acusaba a la empresa de publicidad engañosa al exagerar las capacidades de inteligencia artificial (IA) de sus dispositivos iPhone 15 y 16.

La demanda, presentada ante un tribunal federal de San Francisco, alegaba que la compañía con sede en Cupertino (California) creó una «falsa impresión» sobre la disponibilidad inmediata y la eficacia de Apple Intelligence, la IA de la compañía de la manzana mordida.

Según los demandantes, el marketing de la empresa indujo a los consumidores a comprar nuevos terminales bajo la promesa de una versión vanguardista con IA de Siri que, en la práctica, no se materializó en los plazos anunciados.

Compensaciones para los usuarios

El acuerdo, que aún debe recibir la aprobación preliminar de un juez, contempla compensaciones para los clientes en Estados Unidos que adquirieron modelos de iPhone 16 o versiones Pro del iPhone 15 entre el 10 de junio de 2024 y el 29 de marzo de 2025.

Los clientes elegibles podrían recibir entre 25 y 95 dólares por dispositivo, dependiendo del volumen total de reclamaciones presentadas.

Los medios especializados estiman que el acuerdo cubre aproximadamente 37 millones de dispositivos vendidos en territorio estadounidense.

Apple niega malas prácticas

A pesar del desembolso, que se perfila como uno de los mayores acuerdos extrajudiciales en la historia de la firma, Apple no ha admitido ninguna infracción legal y la compañía defiende que, desde el lanzamiento de Apple Intelligence, ha introducido «decenas de funciones» como las traducciones en vivo (Live Translations) e inteligencia visual.

En los últimos años, Apple se ha visto rezagada en la carrera de la IA generativa, sobre todo en comparación con los dispositivos de Google y Samsung.

La empresa presentó Apple Intelligence en su conferencia de desarrolladores (WWDC) de 2024, pero muchas de las funciones más avanzadas, diseñadas para que Siri compita con herramientas como ChatGPT, han sufrido retrasos.

Este acuerdo se hace público semanas antes de la conferencia anual de desarrolladores de Apple, programada para el 8 de junio, donde se espera que la compañía finalmente presente la actualización definitiva de su asistente virtual. –sn–

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