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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. logancbrown · · focus · HN ↗
        You can't imagine a singular person and reason who would want an improved Siri?
        1. mort96 · · focus · HN ↗
          On their laptop? No, not really. I guess the selling point is that your computer now suggests file names for you?
          1. wat10000 · · focus · HN ↗
            The selling point is being able to say things like "remind me about the next early release from school the night before" and it'll dig up the info from your emails and then create the reminder.
            1. mort96 · · focus · HN ↗
              And people really trust the bot to do that stuff for them? They risk letting down their kid by not being there to pick them up just to save half a minute of finding the right email? That sounds crazy to me, creating a reminder isn't exactly hard
              1. wat10000 · · focus · HN ↗
                It shows where it found the information. In this case, it included a link to a text message from the school which had this info, and quoted it so I could see that it got it right, and it shows the reminder it created so I could see that it's correct. I don't really have to trust it, I can see that it's working.
                1. pawelduda · · focus · HN ↗
                  Maybe you have 5 relevant calendar events but it lists 3 and calls it a day. That is from my experience far bigger type of problem with AI. Hallucination by omission
                  1. prmoustache · · focus · HN ↗
                    Do people have so many calendar reminders per day (heck, even per week) that:

                    - they need an llm to sort through them all?

                    - are at risk of having AI missing one among n entries?

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