Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology.

hobovision@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

  The entire thing is explaining how they are upholding privacy to do this training.

  1. It’s opt-in only (if you don’t choose to share analytics, nothing is collected).
  2. They use differential privacy (adding noise so they get trends, not individual data).
  3. They developed a new method to train on text patterns without collecting actual messages or emails from devices. (link to research on arXiv)

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right. There’s plenty to criticise Apple for, both in general and for chasing the AI trend, but looking at it purely in terms of user privacy within AI features they’re miles ahead of the competition.

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  • hobovision@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had scanned through it, and it looked like the exact same stuff that Google and Microsoft say. Paraphrasing: “we value your privacy” “we’re de-identifying your data” “the processing occurs on-device”…

    Apple probably is better on privacy than other big tech corpos, but it’s a race to the bottom, and they’re definitely participating in the race.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But it’s opt-in. So only people who choose to.

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      • deleted@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I wanted to know the battery cycle for my iPhone 7 in 2019 and the only way was to enable analytics and diagnostics data collection with Apple.

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      • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I call bullshit. They might say they’re opt-in, I bet they have some way to use the personal data that technically doesn’t violate very specific wording of the rule.

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  • deleted@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be honest, it’s important to the point it should be in the title since privacy is the selling point for apple.

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    • Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s on OP. The article is actually titled, “Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy.”

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• huppakee@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes they have said so themselves

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