[xanderlewis]

I agree mostly, but what exactly do you mean by privacy?

I think the real pressing issue is not ‘privacy’ or ‘tracking’ or whatever; it’s having one’s views slowly but surely warped by AI-enabled mass disinformation campaigns and having one’s eyeballs taken hostage by whichever company pays enough to keep you watching. Half the world seems to now be addicted to short-form video slop/brainrot now, and they don’t even enjoy it!

That’s really the hallmark of addiction — you’re consciously aware that it’s completely pointless and detrimental to your life and yet you can’t put it down.

Perhaps the same was said of TV when it was new, but, looking at what the BBC used to broadcast as recently as twenty years ago, I’m shocked how far we’ve fallen. If Apple really wants to save the world, they should find a solution to this. Since (fairly uniquely) their business isn’t dependent on selling attention to advertisers, they might just have a shot.

[mingus88]

Privacy here means Apple is not a data broker. Your inference requests are completely anonymous.

Apple made their money when they sold an expensive bit of hardware. They even use some of these large margins to build out private compute cloud to make sure they never see what you send them

Frankly they are the only big tech company I will even remotely trust. The fact that their AI isn’t bleeding edge is a feature for me