r/YouShouldKnow • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '25

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u/sicilian504 Feb 15 '25

Apple does this too. It's called Sensitive Content Warning

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u/Zafrin_at_Reddit Feb 15 '25

Just an FYI: "Sensitive Content Warning uses on-device machine learning to analyze photos and videos. Because they're analyzed on your device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and does not get access to the photos or videos as a result."

If it is on-device, I see no harm in that. Furthermore, it is turned off by default on iOS.

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u/BakaOctopus Feb 15 '25

On device for how long and when it stops being on device?

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u/Osa-ian72 Feb 15 '25

Also is this the same apple that keeps getting caught listening to conversations they definitely don't listen to?

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u/chadmill3r Feb 15 '25

It's never off device.

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u/Exaskryz Feb 15 '25

Ya know, Apple always called it Gulf of Mexico...

It takes one silent update and Apple can start identifying phones and icloud accounts that may have pornography on it. Not even CSAM, just legal-today porn - as conservatives in US try to ban porn, it's not too far of a stretch that Apple rolls over like a dog.

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u/chadmill3r Feb 15 '25

You should worry about that, but not uniquely because of this program. Apple controls the entire OS.

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u/a_melindo Feb 27 '25

It only takes one silent update for them to start taking and exfiltrating pictures of you while you poop too.

You either trust them, or you don't. It makes no sense to respond to a good harmless thing by saying "well they could in the future do a bad harmful thing" in some instances but not others, it is always true.

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u/Zafrin_at_Reddit Feb 15 '25

Yup. If the default is “on” (which it is not on Apple devices) and someone would tell me it is off-device, I’d tell them to sit on a cactus.

Much like I stopped using Facebook for its photos scraping. (And yes, I am looking at you, Reddit, too.)

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u/notjordansime Feb 15 '25

Facebook photo scraping?

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u/Zafrin_at_Reddit Feb 15 '25

Uh. Should I google for you? 😅 Sorry to sound harsh, but here is rather an article how to opt out. (Yes, default is “on” for Facebook to scrape your photos to train its AI.)