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Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

353 points · 223 comments · alwillis

  1. VCFundedGenYer · · 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 · · 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 · · 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).

        1. mort96 · · focus · HN ↗
          What does your users want your app to do with a language model?
          1. californical · · focus · HN ↗
            I can imagine lots of things- mainly around making short summaries so the user can choose things more easily, or maybe as a smart autocomplete.

            I can imagine a home automation app helping you build a workflow with an LLM. Or an RSS reader giving you a short summary of each article. A health app being able to pull recipes into a standard format. Maybe a fitness app being able to search your workout history if you give it good tools.

            Idk I usually use my phone for reading HN on the toilet and listening to podcasts while cleaning, not much else. I don’t know what else people even do with a phone lol. But those are things I’ve done in the past that LLMs could be helpful for!

            1. mort96 · · focus · HN ↗
              Is this based on user feedback for your app? Do they want your app to feature home automation or making short summaries? Since you were using your app as an example I mean
              1. howunfortunate · · focus · HN ↗
                Not OP, but in my case they are features we already provide that we can make cheaper (for ourselves) by doing it on the user's device rather than paying OpenAI for it.
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