This is about additional new photo search capabilities that are enabled by default and powered by sending (encrypted) data derived from your photos to the cloud, not locally powered AI search.
*Homomorphically encrypted. Be precise. Deliberately handwaving it away as "mere" encryption paints a worse picture than it actually is. Yes, possibly should have been opt-in, and a more human-friendly explanation of how it works would help. However, it's not nearly as bad as HN would have you believe. Very much a case of them pointing out that the emperor is naked, when in fact they have a few shirt buttons missing...
This is about additional new photo search capabilities that are enabled by default and powered by sending (encrypted) data derived from your photos to the cloud, not locally powered AI search.
To be fair, it sounds like it's both. Local, AI powered 'neural hashing' + SHE
*Homomorphically encrypted. Be precise. Deliberately handwaving it away as "mere" encryption paints a worse picture than it actually is. Yes, possibly should have been opt-in, and a more human-friendly explanation of how it works would help. However, it's not nearly as bad as HN would have you believe. Very much a case of them pointing out that the emperor is naked, when in fact they have a few shirt buttons missing...