Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?

Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.

That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.

It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.

We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.

It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.

I don’t want to seam Nihilist but this is probably a good thing. The film of the last Thylacine is a historical artefact and we can only wish for more records.