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Apple Intelligence is upon us, but not every company that owns a major website is a fan of Apple scraping its data to train AI.
A new report by Wired found that several widely recognizable online brands have chosen to opt out of training Apple’s AI bot. Among those who have deliberately turned it off are Facebook, Instagram, the New York Times, Craigslist, and Condé Nast. If the opt-out request is truly honored, Apple Intelligence cannot and will not get any data from those sites until, or unless, any of them enter into official business agreements with Apple for the use of their data.
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Wired‘s report goes into the nitty gritty technical details of how these data scraping bots work, but the main thing to know is that it’s similar to how Apple has trained things like Siri over the years, but now with an extra layer of possible copyright infringement that has …
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