Ai - Apple - Privacy

[Coss]

And interesting article that appears to say that Apple has our back regarding privacy and Ai learning.

Rather than trawling our devices for data, they appear to use a model that for example:

"...starts with the company making many variations on a possible message. The example it gives is, “Would you like to play tennis tomorrow at 11:30AM?”

It then sends these message variations to a selection of Macs and iPhones with Apple Intelligence installed and asks if any of them are similar to messages that are already on that device. The device then chooses which of the variants it’s been given is closest to an email message or text it has access to, and returns that data to Apple.

“As a result of these protections, Apple can construct synthetic data that is reflective of aggregate trends, without ever collecting or reading any user email content,” the Mac-maker points out. "

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The flaw with this approach IMHO is, if they send the string "I wanna k*** Trump",  they could then get a return of 650,023 devices that contain this string and be running afoul of National Security laws if they don't report...

[bust]

On 4/16/2025 at 6:13 AM, Coss said:

The flaw with this approach IMHO is, if they send the string "I wanna k*** Trump",  they could then get a return of 650,023 devices that contain this string and be running afoul of National Security laws if they don't report...

Only 650,023? That sounds extremely conservative.

[Coss]

I've got no real estimate of the "selection of Macs and iPhones with Apple Intelligence installed "

we could easily add 0s to that,  so new guess = 650,023,002