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bigyabai
You know, I'd really rather not have an AI model trained on detecting people stripping naked on any of my webcam-enabled devices.
bigyarnn
Can we have a European version, that freezes if someone shows violence? Nobody cares about nudity.
ncr100
Or if it detects a Trump image / video, anywhere on screen

- i'd love if a Trump image or video was replaced by a talking hamburger that simply said "Rabble rabble rabble"

mathiaspoint
That's so creepy. The machine shouldn't care.
qn9n
I mean it should to an extent, especially if a young person is using the device.
F7F7F7
Jefferey Toobin would have loved this feature during COVID.
lofaszvanitt
Maybe it's time to start a movement, that educates people to ditch the control/oppressive device from their back pockets and be satisfied with a more modest but open system in every respect. All the top tier phones look and feel the same. Everything is locked down, you can't customize anything, everything needs a payment. Ridiculous.
TexanFeller
At most I could accept if this were a feature for children’s accounts that parents could choose to enable. I’m not sure I’m Ok with even that though because slippery slopes quite often start with “ think of the children”.

Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.

vr46
No one cares about the children/elderly/disabled/etc until they want to argue over something
wrboyce
It says in the article that this is exactly what it is.
shaky-carrousel
> In other words, everything happens on-device so Apple has no idea about the contents of your call.

Of course. And we have to trust that it is true and won't change depending on country and/or target.

msgodel
Don't know why this is downvoted. It's pretty difficult to even get a hold of the binary artifacts, much less the source, to verify.

For all you know they could very well be sending back embeddings or have it trigger recording.

HaZeust
That's like a third of the value proposition for FaceTiming with an S/O.
crossroadsguy
As part of Apple One subscription you can select upto three contacts in the nudity exception list.
defrost
So, .. no application for it in the remote consult medical domain then.
m463
I feel this is a situation where half the world is unaware of a specific problem.

And the other half probably doesn't tell them.

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commandersaki
Uh huh, you'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel.