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FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing
- bigyabai 1y agoYou know, I'd really rather not have an AI model trained on detecting people stripping naked on any of my webcam-enabled devices.
- mikece 1y agoSo... use Signal or Telegram?
- bigyabai 1y agoWill that delete the model? Can my consent be used to stop this functionality from being downloaded, besides buying a new phone?
- NewJazz 1y agoYeah makes you wonder how they are training these kinds of models... And who is doing that work. Like the social media moderators who get exposed to mountains of horrifying content.
- cedws 1y agoJin Yang had to pivot from his Hotdog app.
- bigyarnn 1y agoCan we have a European version, that freezes if someone shows violence? Nobody cares about nudity.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago[dead]
- 1over137 1y agoThis was my first thought too. US culture is weirdly prudish about nudity. I guess it comes from their flavour of Christianity? That’s fine of course, but they foist this on the whole world. ;(
- krapp 1y agoWhich is weird when you consider an entire book of the Bible is a poem extolling the qualities and virtues of King Solomon's... er... "royal staff."
- mensetmanusman 1y agoFundamentalism from a backlash to English Anglicism historically.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThey care so much they are banning clothing: https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/10/this-european-beach-enforcing-mandatory-nudity-rules-tourists-22699494/amp/ https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/10/this-european-beach-enforcing... Aha
- ncr100 1y agoOr if it detects a Trump image / video, anywhere on screen - i'd love if a Trump image or video was replaced by a talking hamburger that simply said "Rabble rabble rabble"
- rapjr9 1y agoSearch for "Make America Kittens Again" for the browser extension.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoThat's so creepy. The machine shouldn't care.
- qn9n 1y agoI mean it should to an extent, especially if a young person is using the device.
- F7F7F7 1y agoJefferey Toobin would have loved this feature during COVID.
- lofaszvanitt 1y agoMaybe it's time to start a movement, that educates people to ditch the control/oppressive device from their back pockets and be satisfied with a more modest but open system in every respect. All the top tier phones look and feel the same. Everything is locked down, you can't customize anything, everything needs a payment. Ridiculous.
- TexanFeller 1y agoAt most I could accept if this were a feature for children’s accounts that parents could choose to enable. I’m not sure I’m Ok with even that though because slippery slopes quite often start with “ think of the children”. Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.
- shaky-carrousel 1y ago> In other words, everything happens on-device so Apple has no idea about the contents of your call. Of course. And we have to trust that it is true and won't change depending on country and/or target.
- msgodel 1y agoDon't know why this is downvoted. It's pretty difficult to even get a hold of the binary artifacts, much less the source, to verify. For all you know they could very well be sending back embeddings or have it trigger recording.
- deadfoxygrandpa 1y agojust dont grant internet access to face time and then you can be sure they arent uploading any recordings to their own servers
- msgodel 1y agolol It's been a while but I was under the impression Face Time was a VOIP app. That's a little useless without internet.
- crossroadsguy 1y agoNaah. It works. You must be holding it wrong. Apple things have a special way to function. Sometimes you might feel something is broken but actually it’s you doing it wrong because that’s how it’s supposed to be.
- type0 1y agoOff course it works, you just need to enable telepathy in your brain settings interface
- CharlesW 1y ago<whoosh>
- randombits0 1y agoThere goes my part time job.
- HaZeust 1y agoThat's like a third of the value proposition for FaceTiming with an S/O.
- nozzlegear 1y agoWhat about FaceTiming with grandma?
- cbluth 1y agoI'm sure grandma knows how to undress, otherwise she wouldn't be a grandma?
- nozzlegear 1y agoI'm guessing this feature is intended to prevent two scenarios: A) Grandma accidentally undressing during a FaceTime call (for instance, she forgot to hang up and the call kept recording); and B) Grandma getting on a call with a stranger who wanted to shock her by exposing themselves. At least, that's what the child protection feature† in current versions of iOS is supposed to do. † Which this feature clearly evolved from, and the article suggests that it might be a bug that has enabled this for adults as well.
- crossroadsguy 1y agoAs part of Apple One subscription you can select upto three contacts in the nudity exception list.
- defrost 1y agoSo, .. no application for it in the remote consult medical domain then.
- m463 1y agoI feel this is a situation where half the world is unaware of a specific problem. And the other half probably doesn't tell them.
- bigyabai 1y agoIs the problem in question consent over how my phone works? We're fast approaching the "yes it's bad for privacy but think of the kids" threshold between this and client-side scanning. Both can be used as instruments of blackmail from a sufficiently motivated threat actor.
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- RockRobotRock 1y agoIsn't there someone you forgot to ask?
- commandersaki 1y agoUh huh, you'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel.