I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F… US monopolies
For-profit companies are perpetually locked in a conflict of interest. Inevitably, they will have to decide between what is in the best interest of their users (or other public interests such as the environment for example) with their never-ending obsession to make ever more money. No matter what they say or do publicly, they will always sell out for more profit.
In this case, a bunch of Silicon Valley investors (people who have collectively made trillions over every iteration of IT progress) are forcing “AI” to be the next thing. They have basically decided that they want all tech progress to focus on this area and are forcing every company they invest in to make that happen, regardless of the societal impact.
As a result, you can see clearly that all of these companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Reddit) are basing all their business decisions into trying to make this fantasy become a reality. Even Apple now, the masters of creating a facade of privacy is falling straight into line. And the one thing they all have in common: investors.
And that is why you should always be wary of interacting with big business interests - they will inevitably sell you out someday.
Somehow I am much less scared of AI being forced into everything compared to VR or crypto.
I guess it’s because I know AI is a nothing burger and will slowly lose hype.
While I agree that the AI they will implement will likely not be very effective, it doesn’t have to be to cause massive human suffering. Eg. Google incorrectly marking exposed photos of your kid for your doctor as CSAM. There’s also no guarantee that once these companies finally wake the fuck up (If they’re not already completely aware what they’re doing is messed up) that they will close these holes they’re punching, and that could mean they could replace AI with a mass surveillance tool at any point without you knowing. Nobody should be a fan of this.
Makes perfect sense, but what a bummer.
Nothing but depressing news for common people all around.
What does F… stand for?
FUS monopolies - he’s trying to use the Thu’um to shout them away.
Fuck
Probably fuck, not sure why its censored.
It was a joke on unnecessary censorship that is happening these days everywhere on the internet.
Oh I didnt realize it was a meme now. Fair enough!
Remember, when you buy an apple product, you’re directly supporting Trump.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration
1 million is pocket change for the trilionaire class.
It’s a symbolic pro-rape gesture in my eyes
and google isnt? and meta / facebook isnt? etc
What a great picture 😃 and true on so many controversial topics…
I agree. Definitely.
However, your money actually just went to Trump, via Apple, and their hardware and services.
And it would go to him if I bought an android.
In pretty sure Xiaomi don’t pay Trump. But, you never really know.
What we do really know, is Apple do. Spending with Apple is spending with Trump, guaranteed.
So are a lot of other companies.
And, we can try and avoid them. Or, we can pay trump through them.
There are so many android manufacturers that wouldn’t even spit in trumps direction. The choice is there. It can be taken. Or, we can shrug, find excuses, and just give Trump our money through apple (in this example).
Yes, this is bigger than just phones. PLENTY of other combines donated to him.
You are avoiding those companies too, right?
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I think it was his end run around Apple donating the money directly which would have been a complete disaster. I don’t think Cook supports trump in a “rah rah” sort of way, but knows if the company doesn’t pay him suck up money, it will come back to haunt them later.
Either way, it’s still gross.
Then he should also pay everyone else’s ransom for being gay in America.
Fair. Maybe if he’d given some of Apple’s ill gotten gains to gay organisations we wouldn’t be here!
Don’t they mean Tim Apple?
The Fappening: Part II
I should stock up on tissues
“I want to masturbate to leaked pictures of celebrities” is probably the creepiest reaction to this article I can imagine.
You can opt out
Supposedly. Whether or not it actually works is a different matter.
You could propably monitor web traffic from an another device on the same network. As far as i know, Wireshark can do this, maybe nmap too
Afterwards.
This is data stealing?
Nah, they’re just checking to see if you guys are well proportioned or maybe you need something they can sell you. For example, new clothes? Dave, isn’t that the same jacket you always wear to work? You need a new one! Here are some options from Walmart, we’ll just hide them here behind this thing you’re browsing about right now… How about here too! And here!
Never accept the technology just because it is optional. Eventually it will become default and eventually maditory.
once again having an old as fudge iphone has paid off
if only i could have kept my iphone 5 working i could still be using headphones
I still have my iPhone 6s as a backup for travel. Works fine. Replaced the screen 3x, battery 2x. Still kicking.
Ease of use vs all the rest, as usual
Oops didn’t mean to! /$
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Mob the user and tell them to use a different client, or co-opt their local elections by force and demand it.
Dammit jerboa.
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.
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That was my suspicion too, but I didn’t want to come right out and say it without more information
I love how Apple advertises “Privacy by default” but they do this
Apple opted customers in, got sued, and will now prompt customers if they want to be opted in or out.
And if there’s a class action lawsuit then it’ll be $95 million settlement spread out over 1.46 billion customers (this just happened over Siri spying).
An opt-out that you can’t opt out of because Apple already opted you in and took your photos?
This seems like it is going to be a huge lawsuit. Since a class action won’t deter them or help us, let’s all sue Apple individually in small claims court and kill them by death from a billion cuts.
According to another comment, the photos never leave your device, that part of the processing is done on-device. The global index is on Apple servers.
Not saying that it shouldn’t be illegal and it’s shady as fuck, but GDPR opt-outs are usually retroactive, meaning you can remove consent from data they’ve already processed, and they have to retroactively scrub your personal data out.
How do they retroactively remove the knowledge the AI has gained from analyzing all of our personal information?
They don’t need to.
They only have to remove your personal data. So the company / AI model is not allowed to have data specifically on you, but it can have the average age of people living in your town even if your data contributed to calculating that average.
That said, Apple here never had affirmative consent, so they can’t get away with just doing this.
If they did this in Europe, I would argue it is a GDPR violation and it would be impossible for Apple to remove the data they collected. I hope the EU fines Apple out the nose for this.
