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Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F.... US monopolies

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To what end? They claim they can't read the data, nor the output, nor where it originated from. So... what's the point? If their claims are true then what is the point of all that data transfer, processing, and the massive engineering efforts they've put into it? If it's just so they can tag a location, then they could have just used geo location on the device without sharing anything. If it's to be able to search for " Eiffel Tower" and see pictures you have of it, well, haven't they already been able to do this before this feature with on-board AI processing that doesn't require the data to be shipped to Apple? Something seems off to me, but maybe because I'm not clear on the purpose.