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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. jm4 · 1790019287 · focus · HN ↗
    I actually like AI tools, but I don’t use Apple Intelligence. It’s literally the worst in class. It feels very late 90’s Microsoft. They are shoving it on us when we don’t want it and it’s worse than everything else out there. It’s the Windows Media Player of the AI industry.
    alwillis · 1790025314 · focus · HN ↗
    > It’s literally the worst in class. It feels very late 90’s Microsoft.
    1. I was around in the 90’s; nothing today is that bad.
    2. Siri AI is dramatically better than old-school Siri. You don’t realize how useful personal context is until you have it.
    Something like “When was the last time I went to that pizza place downtown?”—it just works.
    When you call the airline about your flight, your flight info automatically shows up.
    mort96 · 1790026635 · focus · HN ↗
    Yet something like "Call <name of a person>" will still immediately call someone with a completely different name without even letting me cancel, right?
    Siri is completely useless.
    Bud · 1790050688 · focus · HN ↗
    You might want to update your information a bit.
    <a href="https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri" rel="nofollow">https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri
    mort96 · 1790091191 · focus · HN ↗
    Oh, nice, they added a confirmation screen before you call! I'm not sure when they're planning to roll that feature out to Europe but once they do, maybe Siri will be occasionally slightly useful when I need to call someone while my hands are dirty or while I'm driving.

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