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hbn ◴[] No.44502208[source]
People have been clowning on Apple for being behind on the AI stuff and -- while I'd never defend how they promised a bunch of features in 2024, showed them in ads, and sold iPhones based on vaporware, but still haven't shipped most of the features -- I will say, I imagine a lot of the hold-up is because they realized how dangerous it is to start trusting AI with the sensitive data on your phone. It's probably not too hard to make it work most of the time, but even if there's a 0.0001% chance the AI will send a sensitive image meant for your wife to your boss, you should probably reconsider shipping.

I don't believe Google has the tact to care as long as they look like a market competitor in something.

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onlyrealcuzzo ◴[] No.44502521[source]
> but even if there's a 0.0001% chance the AI will send a sensitive image meant for your wife to your boss, you should probably reconsider shipping.

That's too low of a probability for Apple to care. The probability that YOU would do it yourself by some random series of accidents is probably orders of magnitude higher than that.

Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentally sending one to the wrong person!?

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1. II2II ◴[] No.44502675[source]
It's the other way around. The probability is so low that it is incredibly unlikely to happen to any given individual. You would have to be paranoid to worry about it. On the other hand the probability is so high that, when considering the size of Apple's user base, such incidents would happen regularly.
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2. thfuran ◴[] No.44502711[source]
They mean that the baseline probability of someone manually doing that to themselves without AI is higher than that.