Comment by rsync
1 month ago
“It seems Apple are very passionate about analysing your photos for some reason, regardless if you yourself are.”
Isn’t this fragile to pollution from end users?
What if we all ran A local Image generator trained on our own photos… But slightly broken… And just flooded their photo hash collection with garbage?
Now what ?
This would be a very good flushing action. Lot would be learned by seeing who got angry about this and how angry they got…
No. The analysis in question is fully local, used for indexing photos by categories in the Photos app. It is unrelated to any cloud features and not something shared across users.
They are also not using your personal photos to feed the location database, most likely public sources and/or Apple Maps data. If they are relying on GPS-tagged public photos alone, you could probably mess up a system like this by spoofing GPS location en-masse and posting them online for years, but for what purpose?
Like I said, a good candidate for a "flushing action":
https://kozubik.com/items/FlushingAction/
Flood that system with garbage and let's see who gets upset and how they communicate their upset.
If the system is architected as advertised it shouldn't be a problem ...