[nose-wuzzy-pad]

Does the local LLM have access to personal information from the Apple account associated with the logged-in user? Maybe through a RAG pipeline or similar? Just curious if there are any risks associated with exposing this in a way that could be exploited via CORS or through another rogue app querying it locally.

[franze]

no. the on device foundationmodels framework that apfel uses does not have access to personal information from the apple account. the model is a bare language model with no built in personal data access.

apple does have an on device rag pipeline called the semantic index that feeds personal data like contacts emails calendar and photos into the model context but this is only available to apples own first party features like siri and system summaries.

it is not exposed through the foundationmodels api.