I would be surprised if most iPhone users couldn't figure this out themselves so my personal hunch is this article is mostly clickbait for anti-AI folks who already have these features disabled. In particular, because the only way to disable it is to have opted in to it in the first place and that flow is very similar to the disable flow.
They dont need to group the titles together like that, it feels deceptive. I feel like the average user will be put off disabling AI if they still want to use Siri like they always have.
You and I might be knowledgeable enough to realize that we can turn such options off, but the vast, vast, vast majority of people are not.
Sure. Lots of people are too tech-unsavvy to figure that out. But those same people won't be googling how to do it. They'll just give up and ask their kid to do it for them or something.
Let alone reading what’s on their screen when they enable features, promptly forgetting they enabled it, thus asking how to disable them…
Ok enough. Have a good day :)