Title seems misleading if not outright wrong, having read the article.

Changed again?

"We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. We also respect the rights of web publishers to opt out of foundation model training."

Further down. Point 4 under Responsible AI

what a coincidence, i thought we were going to slow down training (amodei, altman et al.)

Apple keeps taking potshots at their own feet.

What Apple consumers want from Apple is a premium product without all the enshittification found everywhere else. I don't know what Apple thinks it's doing by introducing so many ads into everything (maps now!) and shuffling their feet backwards on all their privacy positions.

In a world where every company steals all my data equally, and is ridden with the same crappy ads, why on Earth would I pay a hefty premium to Apple? It's just so stupid and short-sighted in terms of product differentiation.

They changed

> We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260829051311/https://machinele...

to

> Your private personal data and interactions are never used to train our foundation models unless you explicitly choose to help improve them.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third...

> unless you explicitly choose to help improve them.

Is it opt-in or opt-out? Big difference.

The sentence prior states: "Privacy is the default, not something you have to manage."

Explicitly choosing to help improve something by providing your data seems like an opt-in but what do I know these days

Opt-in = explicit and opt-out = implicit. You can't have implicit opt-in, that wouldn't make any sense.

You can't have implicit opt-out either. Opting is an explicit act.

So far Apple has been using default-checked checkbox during onboarding process for OS-level “help us improve…” diagnostics collection. Not sure about this specifically.

I don’t think that counts as an automatic opt-in, given that it’s presented to the user directly during the setup process.