Apple's AI crapware is coming in September
Soon all of Apple's operating systems will be tied into OpenAI's WokeGPT
Today, Apple announced a bunch of new product features at WWDC 2024. Prominently featured among these announcements was Apple’s partnership with OpenAI. Apple is diving deep into AI, partly with its own AI software and partly via its partnership with OpenAI. The next versions of macOS, iOS, HomePodOS, and iPadOS are going to have AI built into them.
I’m not going to regurgitate all the details. For that, you can go over to the MacRumors site and just scroll down for all of their stories about today’s announcement. There’s plenty there for you to read, if it interests you. Just brace yourself to be bombarded with a load of marketing babble in Apple’s official announcements that will have you leaning over to puke into the nearest trash receptacle.
Apple has dubbed its AI crapware “Apple Intelligence.” As soon as I saw the name, the first words that popped into my head were “Apple Retardation.” Leave it to Apple to take AI and give it a pompous, pretentious name that leaves the user rolling their eyes. 🙄
As for me, here’s what I did today: I went into the Settings on all of my Apple devices and disabled automatic OS updates (except for security patches). I recommend doing this if you do not want Apple’s AI software or its partnership with OpenAI to potentially affect your device or data. There is no way I will allow the next wave of operating systems to automatically install on my devices. Even without AI, it’s always a bad idea to do automatic upgrades on the first version of a big OS change.
I also have zero interest in using or having AI on my devices. When I say zero, I mean zero. I have no use for it whatsoever, and I regard it as something that is likely to use system resources, storage space, etc. that could be used for other things. Moreover, I do not trust OpenAI at all, in any way, and I do not want a pipeline to them to be open on my devices. In fact, I do not want anything whatsoever to do with OpenAI.
Your perspective might be quite different than mine. Perhaps AI interests you and you need it for something? Great, have at it. You are more than welcome to install the latest versions of Apple’s operating systems in September, when all of the AI-infested crapware will be released to a mostly unsuspecting public. If it works for you, then I am happy for you. But I will pass on all of it and will remain on whatever version is released before September.
I am aware that Apple has promised privacy protection, and said that OpenAI will only get data after the user is prompted to share it, blah, blah, blah. I have no idea if Apple has a clue what it’s doing here, and I’m not inclined to give them an opportunity to screw up at my expense. In other words, I don’t trust Apple, and I sure do not trust OpenAI. Apple has screwed up before, and this will be a big enough change that the door is open to a world-class fuck-up on Apple’s part.
Where do I begin with OpenAI? Well, perhaps I can sum it up with a word you might have seen floating around: WokeGPT. Yep, WokeGPT. That is what you are going to get with OpenAI’s ChatGPT being connected to your Apple devices. I walked away from ChatGPT once I learned that they had designed it to push the woke communist ideology onto users. Why would I want to use something that I know will lie to me? The entire woke communist ideology is built on lies, and any AI based on it will be filled with lies too.
So why the hell would I allow a pipeline to be created from my Apple devices to OpenAI’s servers? How would I know if OpenAI somehow got access to my data? OpenAI and other AI companies have blatantly stolen content from all over the Internet to train their systems, and now I am supposed to trust this rotten company? For all I know, OpenAI has ripped off my articles here on Substack to train its AI, despite the fact that I have the AI-training switch turned off on the backend.
As for Apple, they missed the boat on AI and are now scrambling like mad to try to catch up and present some sort of coherent product plan for AI. Latching onto WokeGPT is a desperation move on Apple’s part to send a message to its shareholders that the company is ready to ride the AI trend like every other company on the planet. Instead of working on AI, Apple released its overpriced, idiotic Vision Pro VR glasses that nobody wants or needs.
Well, Apple can take its AI crap and OpenAI’s crap and shove it up its ass.
If you ask me, the biggest problem with Apple’s operating systems is that they are already loaded with too many unnecessary features that nobody wants or needs. It would have been better if Apple started chopping the bloat out of all of its operating systems instead of making it worse by adding a bunch of AI trash. Imagine how much better all of Apple’s software would be if they could add an immediate 30–50% speed increase by getting rid of unnecessary features or at least allowing users to turn them off.
Instead, a bunch of AI-crapware will be installed on all Apple operating systems, solely because AI is the “hot, new trend” and Apple feels the need to go along with it like everybody else. It never occurred to them that some of us don’t want it on our systems. Well, I can make do with the current operating systems I have on my Apple devices for a long time. So there is no need to upgrade to what might end up being one of the worst operating system upgrades in Apple’s history.
Here is some additional reading for you:
ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare
ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
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I don't use Apple crap so it's neither here nor there for me (but note to Windows users, you're already up shit creek as far as Microsoft's goofy "AI" shit goes and have been for a while).
As to whether I think there's any use for AI, results TBD. The only acceptable mode of use for me is running on my own devices, completely under my control and completely offline.
I have a local LLM that I've been working on for a while as sort of an art/research/toy project. In spite of throwing six months of free time at it, I'm still unconvinced that it's interesting. But I have no glorious plans to integrate it into my daily use/work. It's just a side project for use in tabletop roleplaying.
Sorry to break it to all the soys and bugmen who think that any time now they'll be writing programs or making art without having to learn anything, but AI is absolutely garbage at both tasks (saying this as a professional programmer and a semi-pro artist). It is never going to get any better. "Hallucination" is not a bug, it's a feature, and its incoherence is fundamental to its architecture. You will continue to be laughed out of the room any time you show up with AI generated shit. So don't try using it for that, it's a waste of time and energy.
Already getting sick of AI in all its forms, I don’t want texts produced by AI, and I certainly won’t use it myself.
Apparently, Apple’s shares dropped somewhat after their announcement 🙄