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That's literally a feature of the platform. If you open the photos app and type text in it will give you the photos containing that text. If your concern is "a
by olliej 3y ago
That's literally a feature of the platform. If you open the photos app and type text in it will give you the photos containing that text.
If your concern is "apple is harvesting my data" then no. All of apple's various analysis systems ("AI") are entirely local. This does mean you get a bunch of duplicated work as every device redoes the same analysis but on the other hand it saves you from "how do we defend against a compromised network".
- timschmidt 3y ago> All of apple's various analysis systems ("AI") are entirely local. Even if that were true (I couldn't say, and I don't think anyone who doesn't have access to Apple source code and production systems could either) that wouldn't preclude Apple harvesting the results of said AI analysis. In fact, doing the analysis on users' devices would represent a shift of that processing from cloud to edge, representing a significant savings for Apple or anyone else in a similar position.
- olliej 3y agoApple's literal marketing message is that they do all the processing on device. It's not a shift for Apple, as apple has never done this analysis in the past, and only started doing the analysis once it could do it locally. The use cases we're talking about also don't work on a cloud based analysis, as you can't have text selection block on network uploads (generally slower than downloads), and it would require uploading every image you open to apple which would presumably be a lot of traffic, and an obvious privacy nightmare. It would also break for users who turn on the e2ee everything mode for iCloud.
- timschmidt 3y agoIt's wonderful (for Apple's bottom line) that you believe these things. I assume you can show source code and provide access to production systems to verify?