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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

parker higgins@xor.blue

I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.comSiri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95MApple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
Rémy
@xowap.dev

Why wouldn't they? It's possible and it makes money. All phones have a chip constantly listening for keywords ("hey Siri"). It comes for free basically. Those assistants are the most underwhelming piece of tech today. And yet no on cancelled them, even Google that cancels everything?

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

They wouldn't because they say they don't, and they value the ongoing trust of people who spend $1000s on their hardware I genuinely believe that Apple have the most sophisticated privacy engineering in the world: simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/11/...

simonwillison.netPrivate Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloudHere are the details about Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, and they are pretty extraordinary. The goal with PCC is to allow Apple to run larger AI models that won't …

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Rémy
@xowap.dev

Definitely, they have extremely advanced control over the user's data and their own hardware platforms. Probably way more private than Google but doesn't mean they don't have side channels for money making I guess. Hard to check given the platform is so secure 🥲