> Apple will, it says, use “on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo is sexually explicit.” All photos sent or received

> Apple will, it says, use “on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo is sexually explicit.” All photos sent or received by an Apple account held by someone under 18 will be scanned, and parental notifications will be sent if this account is linked to a designated parent account. That's a very steep, very slippery slope. What's next? Will they start detecting drugs, alcohol, smoking, hanging out with the wrong crowd? > When we are overzealous in declaring behavior “bad” or “dangerous”—even the sharing of swimsuit photos between teens—we blur young people’s ability to detect when something actually harmful is happening to them. I think everyone in tech should understand the consequences of warning fatigue enough to know the author is making a pretty good point here. Is Apple's "AI" (aka pattern matching with a fancy name) going to be able to interpret context or intent? Definitely not IMO. I can't imagine being a teenager these days. I'm thankful I grew up in the 90s when massive privacy violations by big tech weren't a thing. Why is it Apple's business what pictures kids are taking on their phones and sending to each other? Does Apple have some kind of massive child predator problem on their platforms that they aren't telling us about that would warrant these types of gargantuan privacy violations? If so, tell us about it. If not, fuck off IMO.