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Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

353 points · 223 comments · alwillis

VCFundedGenYer · 1790017285 · focus · HN ↗
I want the disk space taken from the models back.
I will never touch this garbage and would rather use the disk space I purchased to be used for my purposes, not the industry's pointless fad bubble endeavors.
1. mort96 · 1790018375 · focus · HN ↗
  Absolutely 100%. Now I'm very biased against this "AI" stuff in general, but even fans of "AI" can't want this, right? I mean I know some people who are heavy "AI" users and they all either have a setup with Cursor/Codex/Zed/VSCode/whatever or their preferred local model, they'd never ever want to use "whatever Apple happens to ship with the OS". Same with the model Google bundled into their browser, growing Chrome from roughly 200MB to over 4GB. Who's the target audience here?
  It's investors isn't it.
  1. howunfortunate · 1790018664 · focus · HN ↗
    It's pretty nice from an app developers perspective.
    It allows me to save money by calling a model on the users device rather than spending tokens (or forcing the user to spend tokens).
    mort96 · 1790018769 · focus · HN ↗
    What does your users want your app to do with a language model?
    howunfortunate · 1790023850 · focus · HN ↗
    Lots of use cases. Image understanding / labeling is what I had in mind.
    But also voice-to-text, (certain kinds of) search, document summarization, are common things that I could see many apps using Apple Intelligence for.

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