It took me a while of ruminating but I think I like this answer the best. Fundamentally here some people are upset that something they own would betray them.
Which is weird, because it implies anything you used but didn’t buy can and should betray you, and it’s your own fault. You should have been smarter. But it makes a bit of sense, for some odd reason I can’t quite make tangible. When the samsung TV I bought starts showing me ads, when my pricey cable or Hulu package interrupts for commercials, I feel a tinge of this.
So now I think I somewhat get the feeling. Thank you.
You’ve just described every photo upload service in America, although my understanding was Apple would use a list of hashes of known bad content, not an “AI” as google does.
Everyone scans for CSAM. I am not conjecturing on the ethics of scanning photos here, I am suggesting that moving from server- to client-side scanning had no effect on any of the things you are ranting about. Hence why I do not understand the outrage.
> Working for me means not having software designed to report me to the police for how I use my device.
Let me fix it: “how I use iCloud Photos, a hosted service on Apple’s servers”.
My understanding was: it was only ever scanning things on the client that were uploaded to iCloud Photos, in the same exact way they are scanned server-side today but arguably a step more “transparently” for the user (at least if the user is a reverse engineer, heh).
What was crazy about this? The media outrage around the PR was incoherent to me at the time, and it seemed no one took any time to understand the present realities or details.
Which is weird, because it implies anything you used but didn’t buy can and should betray you, and it’s your own fault. You should have been smarter. But it makes a bit of sense, for some odd reason I can’t quite make tangible. When the samsung TV I bought starts showing me ads, when my pricey cable or Hulu package interrupts for commercials, I feel a tinge of this.
So now I think I somewhat get the feeling. Thank you.