@smartasshat

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If Apple chooses to support X The CSAM App, then I guess I’ll be helping their preferred type of customer search for their fix.

ICE on ice works well in watercolor.

n.b. The Waterlogue app far predates AI.

As soon as you step outside that door, Mr. President, you’ll start feeling better. You’ll remember you don’t believe in any of this doctor crap. You’re in control of your own life, remember? Here, take another handful of aspirin.

Weirdly-spelled Johnnies don’t like working for Apple.

https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/115673728713223104

Mark Gurman is good at repeating what insiders tell him.

Not so much with discerning glass and aluminum.

The HUGE issue here is not my privacy, but the privacy of whoever I’m communicating with via Email or Messages.

Do I have the right to send a private message where a family member tells me they lost a pregnancy?

Do I have the right to send a private message where a friend tells me they are depressed and considering suicide?

Hell no.

Yet with this UI it’s easy to do just that.

This is where it goes off the rails and becomes a privacy clusterfuck.

This is the next screen:

9 messages from friends are attached to the response AUTOMATICALLY.

It took me awhile to even figure out how to remove them (they, like other FB reports have attachments, and they can be deleted).

Most people are just going to press the big purple button.

You are then presented with personal messages with the Apple Intelligence.

For example:

When you do a thumbs down, Apple wants the data.

Now I’m curious, how do you improve AI responses without the original plain text that generated them?

The next screen tells me I can rate with thumbs up or down. Seems reasonable.

And earn points - this is when my horseshit detectors went to 11.

When you tap on that button, you get a short overview:

You are reassured that everything stays on device, but as we’ll shortly see, that’s a lie.