Post by @zzt@mas.to

so apple, the company that admitted out loud it needs people to opt into exfiltrating their data to train Siri AI (as much as you can call a “yes please” / “not now” prompt opt in) or it won’t work, simultaneously released an image tagging system that isn’t useful for identifying generative images in the wild (because it’s proprietary metadata that’ll get stripped as soon as the image is converted for use on the web) but is highly useful for identifying genuine images to train Siri AI on

do I have that right

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@zzt@mas.to 4 hr. ago

please don’t tediously reply to this thread with a bunch of horseshit copied from apple’s marketing about how it’s good for journalists or “evidence” when there’s a ton of other technical and non-technical ways to authenticate doctored images, and none of those get fed to the slop machine

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@zzt@mas.to 2 hr. ago

some fucking coward decided to reply to a reply to this post to do this exact thing, except they untagged me so I wouldn’t see it?????

and they of course decided to talk over my points instead of replying to them in any way

apple fans… are you ok? why are you like this? you understand that apple does things in order to make money, right? you understand that feeding authentic, original, valuable images to the slop machine is one of the few ways they (likely incorrectly) think they can make a profit off the shit they invested a ton of money into, right?

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@zzt@mas.to 2 hr. ago

here, shithead, even though you ignored all my points (especially the ones about consent), let me reply directly to a point you made:

apple wants a small number of genuine, high quality photos from people like journalists because exfiltrating high-quality privileged information from specialists is the only way to make an LLM look like it’s doing a good job. that’s why OpenAI did it recently. that’s why AI corporations keep getting caught doing it. apple is an AI corporation.

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@zzt@mas.to 4 hr. ago

and you’re perfectly welcome to post “but it’s opt in” here!

if you follow it with a detailed technical explanation of how apple implemented the system that gets affirmative, informed consent from all of the subjects that might appear in tagged photos, or whose work might appear in tagged photos, or whose data may otherwise appear in tagged photos

describe the system they use to ensure my data doesn’t get used to train Siri AI even if it’s on someone else’s device

what’s that? they didn’t implement a system like that?

you don’t fucking say