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Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?

Do you trust apple with their claims?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, but if a linux distro implemented a local-only version of this, I would be interested in using it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I honestly don't understand the use case. What do you find interesting about it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My memory isn't perfect, it would be nice to have a second set of eyes, and I could describe things to it aside from knowing the exact words. "What was that website I visited within the last six months where I played an online game that was like snake but different?" or "What was that cryptocurrency i was researching which was touting it had perfect forward secrecy?" "Who was I emailing about the football game" etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I feel like those can be solved already by searching through your emails/browser history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One thing it claimed was the ability to rewrite copy. Basically finally an improvement over spellcheck which has been the same for like 20 years. Would be nice to have something better built into the OS in every text field.

You could also have stuff like suggestions in your terminal when you're starting to write a command based on what's in the man pages and the layout of your filesystem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Recall won't help with that. You also don't need an AI for the second one. Just something more than a basic shell.