Private Cloud Compute Security Guide

Sibling comments point out (and I believe, corrections are welcome) that all that theater is still no protection against Apple themselves, should they want to subvert the system in an organized way. They’re still fully in control. There is, for example, as far as I understand it, still plenty of attack surface for them to run different software than they say they do.

What they are doing by this is of course to make any kind of subversion a hell of a lot harder and I welcome that. It serves as a strong signal that they want to protect my data and I welcome that. To me this definitely makes them the most trusted AI vendor at the moment by far.

Exactly. You can only trust yourself [1] and should self host.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JyDvBbZ6Q

That is an answer for an incredibly tiny fraction of the population. I'm not so much concerned about myself than society in general, and self-hosting just is not a viable solution to the problem at hand.

Nobody promised you that real solutions would work for everyone. Performing CPR to save a life is something "an incredibly tiny fraction of the population" is trained on, but it does work when circumstances call for it.

It sucks, but what are you going to do for society? Tell them all to sell their iPhones, punk out the NSA like you're Snowden incarnate? Sometimes saving yourself is the only option, unfortunately.