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?
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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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The difference? Google crunches all of your weird private photos on *their* servers not just on your device. Whoops!
Oct 30, 2017 · 7:45 PM UTC
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