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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
Based on their presentations yesterday and accompanying written materials they have a pretty capable ~3B parameter Foundational LLM running fully locally on the devices which is the first line. https://machinelearning.apple.com&#
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
Good news then that you’re explicitly asked for permission each time any query would by shared with ChatGPT.
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
You can read what they have shared about the security aspects of the cloud portion of their AI offering here: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
Can’t find a link right now (search terms are pretty crowded atm!) but I saw they just recently shared an llm they’ve been working on that is designed to answer questions about how a give screen of an app functions. (Identifying buttons, co
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
I actually liked that they didn’t show any of the AI writing capabilities being used in iMessage but rather in email client for more professional contexts. I’m really curious to see if they make it available in iMessage…
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
You can only go into so much detail in that format for that audience. I was happy that they simultaneously posted a much more technical deep dive: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
The details of their approach: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
Word on the street (someone who was talking to Apple employees at WWDC) is that the Vision Pro doesn’t have enough headroom on the processor for it. It’s driving that sucker really hard just doing its “regular” thing.
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
If you want the details: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
Before you write off their claims I encourage you to read more about the detailed specifics (if you have the technical footing and inclination to do so). While the approaches should certainly be probed and audited, it’s clearly more than pe
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
What do you mean by the “record”? It seems like you think this means Apple somehow has access and stores all that information in their cloud and we just have to hope/trust that they don’t decide they want to poke around in it? You shou
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
You can read the details of their approach for the privacy/security aspects of the cloud compute portion here. https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by ducadveritatem 2y ago
Are you claiming Apple uses personal user data (e.g someone’s photos or texts) as training data for their server-side models? That’s a massive claim and there are some journalists you should definitely shoot a message to on signal if you ha
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by ducadveritatem 5y ago
The explanation is complicated but really fascinating. I think I understand it, but not well enough to explain it. Read the section entitled "What cryptographic tools are used in the implementation of the system?" in this write up
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by ducadveritatem 5y ago
Sorry, but they're not "spying on your device". If you choose to upload your photos to their cloud service (iCloud Photo Library), they'll use perceptual hashing and private set intersection tech to check against a datab
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by ducadveritatem 5y ago
That's exactly what they're doing. And they're requiring multiple matches before an account is flagged, further reducing false positives. They claim they've set the threshold to achieve a ~1 in 1 trillion probability of
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by ducadveritatem 5y ago
The "algorithm" isn't some sort of neural network trying to intelligently identify things that "look like" CP. It's a perceptual hash matching against a database of known CP. It has to find multiple matches bef
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by ducadveritatem 5y ago
That isn't accurate. They're not blindly handing lists of users over to the government. If an account uploads multiple images that match to known exploitative images and exceeds a threshold, then the account is flagged for review
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
Or maybe "don't work at Apple if you plan to spend dozens of hours of company time on the phone with your startup cofounders and use proprietary HR information to poach employees while still employed yourself."
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
This just seems like them attempting to be sensationalist. Anyone who has a company device managed with MDM that doesn't think their employer can monitor everything that happens on that device should go back and reread the terms they
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
No, sued for actively recruiting them while still employed by the same company . He had a contractual duty of obligation to work in the company's best interest and instead spent dozens and dozens of hours on the phone with his co-foun
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
>It seems awfully convenient that Apple is the only entity that can still obtain the user's location Except there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this is the case. All that is established is that if the user has explicitly
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
But there isn't a general "System Services" toggle. There are a ton of specific toggles categorized as "System Services".
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
At the risk of seeming pedantic: There is a difference between "Apple" and "your device". If there is evidence that Apple is collecting/using location data for some purpose not detailed in their privacy policy and g
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by ducadveritatem 7y ago
Are you saying that apps should be allowed to directly access GPS antenna/hardware without the system being involved at all? Because that is the only way I see that an app could use the data without the system being in the loop at all