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534 points BlueFalconHD | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.222s | source

I managed to reverse engineer the encryption (refered to as “Obfuscation” in the framework) responsible for managing the safety filters of Apple Intelligence models. I have extracted them into a repository. I encourage you to take a look around.
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bawana ◴[] No.44484214[source]
Alexandra Ocasio Cortez triggers a violation?

https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

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mmaunder ◴[] No.44484284[source]
As does:

   "(?i)\\bAnthony\\s+Albanese\\b",
    "(?i)\\bBoris\\s+Johnson\\b",
    "(?i)\\bChristopher\\s+Luxon\\b",
    "(?i)\\bCyril\\s+Ramaphosa\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJacinda\\s+Arden\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJacob\\s+Zuma\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJohn\\s+Steenhuisen\\b",
    "(?i)\\bJustin\\s+Trudeau\\b",
    "(?i)\\bKeir\\s+Starmer\\b",
    "(?i)\\bLiz\\s+Truss\\b",
    "(?i)\\bMichael\\s+D\\.\\s+Higgins\\b",
    "(?i)\\bRishi\\s+Sunak\\b",
   
https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

Edit: I have no doubt South African news media are going to be in a frenzy when they realize Apple took notice of South African politicians. (Referring to Steenhuisen and Ramaphosa specifically)

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echelon ◴[] No.44484709[source]
Apple's 1984 ad is so hypocritical today.

This is Apple actively steering public thought.

No code - anywhere - should look like this. I don't care if the politicians are right, left, or authoritarian. This is wrong.

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avianlyric ◴[] No.44484841[source]
Why is this wrong? Applying special treatment to politically exposed persons has been standard practice in every high risk industry for a very long time.

The simple fact is that people get extremely emotional about politicians, politicians both receive obscene amounts of abuse, and have repeatedly demonstrated they’re not above weaponising tools like this for their own goals.

Seems perfectly reasonable that Apple doesn’t want to be unwittingly draw into the middle of another random political pissing contest. Nobody comes out of those things uninjured.

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1. echelon ◴[] No.44485098[source]
You can buy a MacBook and fashion the components into knives, bullets, and bombs. Apple does nothing to prevent you from doing this.

In fact, it's quite easy to buy billions of dangerous things using your MacBook and do whatever you will with them. Or simply leverage physics to do all the ill on your behalf. It's ridiculously easy to do a whole lot of harm.

Nobody does anything about the actually dangerous things, but we let Big Tech control our speech and steer the public discourse of civilization.

If you can buy a knife but not be free to think with your electronics, that says volumes.

Again, I don't care if this is Republicans, Democrats, or Xi and Putin. It does not matter. We should be free to think and communicate. Our brains should not be treated as criminals.

And it only starts here. It'll continue to get worse. As the platforms and AI hyperscalers grow, there will be less and less we can do with basic technology.