‘Unreal and Dystopian’: Apple Intelligence Is Summarizing Breakup Texts So You Don’t Have to Read Them

Leaders from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon have hailed AI as the technology driving the next industrial revolution. And while AI can lead to business impact and productivity gains, it can also be “unreal and dystopian,” one Apple Intelligence user discovered.

On Thursday, Nick Spreen, an app developer based in New York, posted that Apple Intelligence summarized a breakup text from his now ex-girlfriend. The summary simply read, “No longer in a relationship; wants belongings from the apartment.”

Credit: Nick Spreen/X

Spreen told Ars Technica that the actual texts were more personal than the AI summary and that the summary “added a level of distance to it that wasn’t a bad thing.” Still,

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