I am hoping GDPR can save the rest of us and force apple to provide some way to opt-out
Will there be a general on/off slider just like there is for Siri? Probably. Will more than 1% of the userbase turn it off? No.
Will I be surprised if, days before Apple Intelligence is released to the general public, it is declared that apps distributed via non-Apple app stores are not eligible for linking to these AI services (payment of the cloud services and OpenAI being funded by App Store revenue, naturally, and TANSTAAFL)? No, I will not.
> Will there be a general on/off slider just like there is for Siri? Probably. Will more than 1% of the userbase turn it off? No.
These two statements are at odds
No they are not.
As described so far, the system is on device or out to Apple's private computing cloud. If the system thinks it can use OpenAI then it will ask. It will ask _each time_. So far Apple has not said that there will be a complete opt-out but I expect there will be just as there is for Siri.
Homomorphic encryption is not practical. If you're sending data to a server for processing, that server must be able to see your data. If someone tells you otherwise, they are lying.
> Will I be surprised if, days before Apple Intelligence is released to the general public, it is declared that apps distributed via non-Apple app stores are not eligible for linking to these AI services
Yeah, this seems like the move, along with banning competing AI apps from the store.
I've noticed over the years smart people have made great things, but often leave them in the hands of idiots. What does 'carefully vetted' mean.
“We’ll take the extraordinary step of making software images of every production build of PCC publicly available for security research. This promise, too, is an enforceable guarantee: user devices will be willing to send data only to PCC nodes that can cryptographically attest to running publicly listed software” [1].
Based on this thread, Apple over-allocated to engineering over marketing.