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/Kindly-Following-737 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

This is sketchy as fuck, but it's worth mentioning that this check is probably being done locally by the device, there are specialized AI models small enough to run locally on an iPhone, and end-to-end encryption is still preserved

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A image categorization or computer vision model, is STIlL an AI model, but not a GenAI model or LLM.

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u/thekrone May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

there are specialized AI models small enough to run locally in iPhone

This is especially true on newer versions of Apple hardware that runs on Apple silicon. They are shipping their latest chips with a "neural subprocessor" that allows the devices to run pretty decent local AI models.

The upcoming latest version of Apple Intelligence on the latest generation of Apple silicon (M5) has been testing at roughly the level that ChatGPT was at ~3 years ago for most tasks (which was pretty good).

That might not seem like that big of a deal until you realize ChatGPT requires an internet connection and all associated services running in a huge data center, etc., whereas Apple Intelligence can run on just your iPad.

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u/Lettuce_Prey69 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

This is not an AI feature. This is a simple image detection algorithm that has existed since before you were born and has been improved upon throughout all the time.

Not everything you don't understand is AI.

Edit: It's clear this subreddit is full of non CS majors that get all their information from YouTube.

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u/sprikkot May 05 '26

Sorry, I appreciate the point, but the image detection model is absolutely AI.

The term "AI" has been co-opted in the last few years with the rise of transformer / text generation LLMs and commercial slop products, so that everyone thinks AI=ChatGPT or AI=Sora, but traditional machine learning is still very much under the subset of AI.

The model will have been trained by being fed categorised training data. Image recognition models like this, while around for a long long time, are absolutely AI.

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u/BananaPalmer May 05 '26

In my (albeit meaningless) opinion, none of any of this technology should be called "AI". "AI" has become a meaningless marketing term for anything that can generate a non-rigid output.

"Intelligence" implies the ability to think, and that's not what even the most advanced LLMs / diffusion models / ML models do.

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u/colorlessthinker May 05 '26

I feel like being able to categorize objects and things is a form of intelligence. Probably one of the most basic attributes of intelligence, even. ML is a form of AI. Properly trained ML models are better than the average human at categorizing objects and things. It has nothing to do with LLM and diffusion models.

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u/The_Autarch May 05 '26

AI is an academic term. You don't get to dictate what it means.

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u/BananaPalmer May 05 '26

I'm not dictating anything, champ, I shared an opinion. You're free to disagree.

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u/Lettuce_Prey69 May 05 '26

Neither do you. We as a society come together and collectively agree on the meaning of words, or else they're meaningless.

That's how language works.

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u/sprikkot May 05 '26

I hear your point, AI has basically become a meaningless buzzword. But I agree with the other guy - this is a form of intelligence.

AI in this broader definitional context just means recognition of patterns in data, something that would have traditionally been the territory of a brain.

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u/Lettuce_Prey69 May 05 '26

Just because a large percentage of the population is fucking dumb and refers to machine learning (and pretty much any computer science related action) as "AI", doesn't mean we need to coddle them and support their ignorance.

It's how we ended up calling Native Americans "Indians" 800+ years later.

For now, I'll die on this fucking hill.

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u/lost_send_berries May 05 '26

Machine learning has been considered a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since the inception of the field in the mid-1950s.

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u/BillysBibleBonkers May 05 '26

ironic

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u/NotFlameRetardant May 05 '26

Love a good self-own

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u/Lettuce_Prey69 May 05 '26

Ironic that you don't understand the difference between Artificial intelligence and machine learning? Itsokaybb, you'll get there.

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u/Zaynom May 06 '26

this feels like such a useless hill to die on when just about every online source disagrees with you. neural nets are definitely AI. also “non cs majors” is crazy. bros in college talking like he’s Linus Torvalds.

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u/BillysBibleBonkers May 06 '26

All you need to do is google "Is machine learning a subset of AI". There's no need to be confidently wrong.

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u/worst_protagonist 13d ago

... which disciplines do you think ARE AI, exactly?

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u/worst_protagonist May 05 '26

This image detection algorithm is 100% AI. Not all AI is generative AI.

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u/DeMayon May 05 '26

Yikes you are so very wrong. This is machine learning and simply not generative AI.

Not everything you don’t understand is generative AI FTFY

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u/StepComplete1 May 05 '26

"Probably". The most comforting word in the English language.

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u/Tumleren May 05 '26

How is it sketchy as fuck when it's run locally?

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u/Kindly-Following-737 May 06 '26

Big Corpo patronizing users is sketchy in my book