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I have a few friends at the Beeb, albeit not in the newsroom, and they have a blanket ban on ALL GenAI tools that aren't self-hosted. I would be very surprised if IT at the BBC wasn't blocking Apple Intelligence outright.

Although reading the article, I can't really tell if this means content was rewritten on the BBC content side, or a hallucination on-device using BBC content.

LLMs are useful for a great deal of things, particularly offline translation without having to send data to Google's servers. Sometimes I want to send a long message to friends and family but don't want to write it in English, Polish, and Hindi.

But who thought using it for news headlines was a good idea?! Given the tens of thousands of news headlines published daily, some of them are statistically guaranteed to be falsely presented by AI.

E: not sure whether people are downvoting because they want Google to have their data, they don't want people from different cultures talking to one another, or because they want AI-altered news stories.