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>Apple turning a feature on by default can only possibly be a conspiracy to surreptitiously obtain training data from people’s photos?

Apple-scale companies have done far worse. It is hardly a "conspiracy" to allege Apple behaves like other companies of its ilk.

>It couldn’t just be that they think most people will want the feature?

Apple doesn't care what the end user thinks. "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them" -Steve Jobs

>only conceivable option is a bit nuts.

I am merely suggesting it as the most likely option, not the only option.

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I think it's technically impossible for Apple to get training data from this due to the encryption. In which case it's not a likely option at all.

[drawkward]

The landmark tagging models are obviously trained on something. Apple still benefits from my involuntary participation.

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They’re not obviously trained on encrypted data that Apple can’t decrypt.