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Aside from trying to capitalize on WWDC buzz by including "Apple" in the title, I don't see anything that couldn't have been said a year ago.

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I think this is about the scale of it. This is going to be running on every iPhone and Mac, rather than a 3rd party app or website you buy or go to.

It’s now built into the operating system.

New update comes with an app dedicated to generating AI images and email and notes have features that generate and summarise text.

Yes, this is going to accelerate the transition to a world where:

• X drafts a set of bullet points for an email

• X uses AI to make it into a full-blown email, with various pleasantries and appropriate padding

• Y has an email client that uses AI to distill the message to its essence

• Y reads a set of bullet points not unlike the ones that X originally drafted

Well in this case, Apple is going to avalanche the slop to an unprecedented degree.

How? Aside from their tacky generated images, the only real gen AI thing they're doing is providing a quick interface to ChatGPT.

Yes? Count the number of iPhone users alone. Now they have quick and unlimited free access to junk generation tools. There’s no generative image tool that’s nearly as available as this will be.

Probably it won’t make a dent in text generation since ChatGPT already has millions of users, but for images that’s different.

It will be a step increase for sure, but remember (If I understand correctly) it's only iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max owners to start. Any number of other players (Google, Microsoft, Meta) could jump in with prominent image generators by the time Apple rolls out more broadly.

+ MacOS + iPadOS

You say this like people weren't already generating endless slop "content" with their phone cameras of food, selfies, vlogs and other brain rot. You also say it like a lot of what gets posted on social media by normies isn't just fantasy anyway.

Excellent point, but slop takes brain rot to new heights of mindlessness.

Very true, but it isn't really that much of a leap from where it's been at for a long time—especially since face altering "filters" became the norm.

Aren't Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn deep into this already?

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