And now the world finds out your phone is quietly figuring out the content of your photos
ATTENTION ALL GIRLS ALL GIRLS!!! Go to your photos and type in the ‘Brassiere’ why are apple saving these and made it a folder!!?!!?😱😱😱😱
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your iPhone can look at photos and see + understand: ✅ cat ✅ beaches ✅ trees ✅ fridges ✅ nose hairs ✅ dick pics ✅ sex photos 🙃 sorry
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Look it’s all in good fun, but Apple’s implementation here is good: machine learning models downloaded, but all crunching happens *offline*
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Apple’s mistake is users don’t understand how their phones suddenly know why “boob” and “penis” reliably return photos No prompts, opt-in
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It’s handy when your phone can find cats and you don’t think of why, but when it suddenly processes nudes you’re like...who’s doing this?

Oct 30, 2017 · 7:35 PM UTC

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There’s no switch or UI affordance, so you have no idea *how* it’s going on. If I wasn’t in tech, I’d assume Apple was looking at them
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tl;dr - making machine learning seem magical is great but your users will be EXTREMELY uncomfortable when that magic becomes apparent
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weird side effect: if you try google photos it tells you it lets you do this! So you’re like cool, this handy thing from my phone
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The difference? Google crunches all of your weird private photos on *their* servers not just on your device. Whoops!
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Replying to @internetofshit
My phone reliably returns results for dogs and deadlifts, but can't give me pics of those tacos I took last month.
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I wonder whether @Google handles this sort of thing on-device as well. My guess is no, but I'd be happy to hear otherwise.
Replying to @internetofshit
easy fix: don't take nudes
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