Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy
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    • Reyali@lemm.eeEnglish
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      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)
      • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        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.

      • hobovision@lemm.eeEnglish
        02·
        5 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.