An artificial intelligence feature on iPhones is generating fake news alerts, stoking concerns about the technology's ability to spread misinformation.

Apple has pledged improvements to its news summarising tool, but critics say it is dangerous and needs to be withdrawn.

Apple, the iPhone maker, has said it will update its AI feature following calls to withdraw the controversial feature for issuing inaccurate news alerts. The AI feature is expected to summarize news notifications but has sometimes fabricated news on its iPhones much to the displeasure of readers and news publishers.

Macworld Following a litany of serious errors and numerous complaints, Apple has announced that it will make changes to the way its AI news summaries are presented to users. In December, the BBC complained when Apple Intelligence auto-summarized one of its articles as part of a notification and completely altered its meaning,