Apple’s promise was simple: Personal data from iPhone users will never be used to train AI models. That is now over.
  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    Apple is relying on an opt-in procedure: When activating Siri AI, the manufacturer asks for help in improving the chatbot, as developers with access to the release candidate of iOS 27 report.

    The update will be released to the public on Monday, September 14.

    You can either agree to this or press a visually inconspicuous “Not now” button. The dialog cannot be completely dismissed. Users can switch it off again after activation in “Settings > Analysis & Improvements”.

    • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 month

      I really can’t stand the “Not now”, where “services” (including Google’s backup service) prey on the user accidentally agreeing one day.

  • Geodes & Gems@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 month

    Apple doesn’t care about user privacy, was that meant to be surprising?

    • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1 month

      I don’t like Apple. I find their UI to be hard to use and counter-intuitive. Their walled garden / vendor lock-in is a model of monopoly behavior that is terrible.

      However, unlike most other US tech giants when you use their stuff you are the customer, not the product. It is in Apple’s interest to keep their customers happy.

      So on one hand it is surprising that they would upset their customers like this.

      However, capitalism dictates that if their is also a chance of making money by making you both the customer and the product, Apple has to take it.

      So on the other hand completely unsurprising. 😅