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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. userbinator · 1790049404 · focus · HN ↗
    I played around with local image generation models not long ago, and I downloaded them myself along with the rest of the software I needed. Then again, the average Apple user seems to want to put themselves on a leash(noose?) with Apple on the other end.

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