The dreaded breakup text. One of the worst notifications you can get on a phone, other than that free trial you meant to cancel rolling over. With Apple's latest AI update, it can summarise texts so you don't have to manually read them, and that's equal parts creepy and kinda genius when applied to serious texts.
In a , spotted by , one unfortunate Twitter user was broken up with on their birthday and Apple Intelligence summarised the breakup text to say:
Though other Twitter users are understandably creeped out and empathetic to the original poster's situation, some have found themselves oddly comforted by the idea of an AI summary. One "Unironically into this (but I’m a little different emotionally)". "Low key this is really nice tho… AI cuts through the bs and gets ya the info you need…". Other users push back on it, with "Have you ever processed a human emotion… ever?"
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As a bit of a generative AI sceptic, I don't think I would ever use a function like this. Not only do I think there's nuance to language that a summary would struggle to fully pick up but I think, given the heightened emotional state of a breakup, I would want to read that text for myself.
This is before mentioning the coded language that comes from a long relationship—phrases, unique in-jokes, and terminology. I think the summary would simply make me more anxious before clicking it, prolonging the dread around a situation like this. Breakup texts are never nice so I don't want to see one from my AI too.