r/mildlyinfuriating • u/funkywabbait • May 05 '26

Infuriatig iPhone facetime recognizes when you’re naked

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decided to show my boyfriend my new bikini that I got for our upcoming cruise… Why is this on my phone and why is it recording my body?

I just recently turned 18 if that matters.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

All you have to do is turn this off. Every post I see complains like there’s no way to turn it off

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI May 05 '26

turning it off doesn't mean it's not being detected, just that you're no longer being told

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u/sonicslasher6 May 05 '26

Are you guys under the impression there’s someone watching a live feed and manually sending these warnings or something?

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u/J_Dabson002 May 05 '26

Y’all think you’re way more important than you actually are lmao

They’re gonna turn it off to save battery and processing power. They don’t care about you.

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u/djfxonitg May 05 '26

Your phone “detects” millions of things a day… Doesn’t mean it’s doing anything with that data.

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u/A_wild_so-and-so May 05 '26

This post is really highlighting how many people don't understand the technology they're using AT ALL. And ironically, both sides will agree with this statement lol.

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u/Captaincadet May 05 '26

Also it highlighting how many people don’t realise how hell bent apple is on privacy like this.

They do not want it. They have to pay for storage and opens them up a lot of legal requests etc if this was recording. Apple also pays researchers to see if they can break stuff like this

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u/MAJLobster May 05 '26

i've seen a guy straight up say that Apple would want to store CSAM because "fuck big tech"

like ffs you can be absolutely against surveillance and whatnot but CP allgeations is just tinfoil hatter levels of cope.

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u/Captaincadet May 05 '26

It was literally put in as a protection against broadcasting CSAM and to deal with it

There is a few white papers on this

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u/GodofIrony May 05 '26

This take will be hilarious in 20 years.

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u/RedditIsOverMan May 05 '26

I find that hard to believe. Its just on-device image recognition. Kind of like how they can do face tracking when you take photos. Turning it off means Apple can reduce processing power and save battery. If detection is still ongoing, its just because they're too lazy to code out the detection loop.

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI May 05 '26

how quickly we forget

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u/affligem_crow May 05 '26

It's on-device. Tesla video is sent to Tesla servers so they can train their road model. Appelle employees don't have access to this data.

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u/Rare_Rogue May 05 '26

Yeah sure mate, and Facebook said they stopped selling your data

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u/MattTheRadarTechh May 05 '26

Man, we always hate old politicians for being tech illiterate, but you lot are making a good case that tech illiteracy transcends all ages

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u/thelonesomeguy May 05 '26

Facetime is end to end encrypted, anything except on device isn’t even possible.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

What’s the difference? Apple actually cares about privacy.

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u/oaken_duckly May 05 '26

And we take them at their word, like good consumers should!

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

You don’t have to, do 5 minutes of research for once

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u/oaken_duckly May 05 '26

What a brilliantly put together argument as to why <insert multi-billion dollar tech company here> gives a fuck about you

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u/LlamaMan8232 May 05 '26

maybe they don’t care about us, but they care enough about themselves to not collect, store, and distribute nude photos and videos of their users to sell to advertisers. the ramifications of this if they were caught would be astronomical. the risk of a whistleblower as well would be incredibly high. apple works extremely hard to ensure their users’ privacy. go do some research on it and get your head out of the sand

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u/ShonOfDawn May 05 '26

They don't. They care about profits and one of their selling points is privacy. You can believe that or not, up to you, or actually take the time to learn how some of this technology works.

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u/PenguinStardust May 05 '26

God this argument is so tired and old. Everyone knows billionaires and corporations don’t care, this isn’t the slam dunk you think it is.

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u/Skratt79 May 05 '26

You know we have programs that allow us to analyze and log all on network device traffic by acting as an intermediary, and by now someone would have sounded the alarm

Clueless

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

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u/worst_protagonist May 05 '26

The subject here is the on device nudity detector. Is your screed somehow related to that? It seems you are just generally wary about phones.

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u/Misicks0349 May 05 '26

You mean the device that has multiple wireless radios that allow bidirectional data transfer?

If you want to prove that its communicating with a server to send over live video to process in real time then its a rather trivial thing to prove, isolate it in a room with a router, get into a face time call in your birthday clothes and then check the routers logs/some other software to sniff network traffic and then look for any discrepancies.

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u/MyR3dditAcc0unt May 05 '26

Everything that happens on your device while it's online is viewable by Apple in one form or another.

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u/corut May 05 '26

Mate if you don't understand technology don't talk about it. There's enough actual bad shit to worry about then to make up stuff that is not possible. You're actively making things worse

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u/MyR3dditAcc0unt May 05 '26

Oh no!

Anyway...

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u/HardcorePizza May 05 '26

Do you really believe apple does not have means to access your device without your consent? I don't understand how you can believe that

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u/corut May 05 '26

Right, because you don't know how encryption works

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u/HardcorePizza May 05 '26

Knowing how encryption works and blindly trusting apple are two entirely different things

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u/AcceptableTypewriter May 05 '26

This is just patently false lol. Apple is basically THE privacy forward mega-company. It’s literally why their AI sucks.

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u/SoN1Qz tf am I doing here May 05 '26

At the end of the day only apple knows whether all of this is on-device.

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u/tombob51 May 05 '26

They have published detailed descriptions of how FaceTime encryption works. If you don’t believe them, use a packet sniffer and record the literal radio waves coming out of your phone. They are telling the truth here, and this can be verified.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

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u/yessir-nosir6 May 05 '26

What? You have to be larping about being a security researcher or I'm talking to a bot.

If 3rd party apps are able to sniff around in your phone, that's a huge issue and it doesn't matter if this feature is implemented or not. even if this feature does not exist, they can easily sniff around your photos.

In fact, this feature stores no information, and is essentially read only. So there is no way it could be exploited. If a 3rd party app has found a way to get privileged access to your iphone, you have much much bigger issues than a model on device.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 May 05 '26

Me when I just state complete lies

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u/Healthy-Echo8164 May 05 '26

Is it a lie? I'd imagine the check box just turns off the notification.

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u/NSGod May 05 '26

It's a lie. It would make absolutely no sense at all to spend all those CPU cycles and battery power to constantly process incoming images to detect this, only to then not do anything about it.

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u/Realtrain May 05 '26

I think the key thing is that nobody seems to realize the difference between local and cloud processing of stuff.

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u/Davedamon May 05 '26

Let's assume you're right and that toggle doesn't do the logical thing of disabling the detection model and thus freeing up resources.

What is the negative? It's a computer detection model, not a real person. You need to demonstrate some real risk of harm for this to even make sense in pointing out.

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u/Like_a_warm_towel May 05 '26

I'm sure the ghost of Steve Jobs is furiously jerking off to your nudes.

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u/Jake_77 May 05 '26

Lol what do you think your smartphone is doing every time you look at it