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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Apple Intelligence isn't "powered by OpenAI" at all. It's not even based on it.

The only time OpenAI servers are contacted is when you ask Siri something it can't compute with Apple Intelligence, but even then it clearly asks the user first if they want to send the request to ChatGPT.

Everything else regarding Apple Intelligence runs either on-device or on their "Private Cloud Compute" infrastructure, which apparently uses M2 Ultra chips. You then have to trust Apple that their claims regarding privacy are true, but you kind of do that when choosing an iPhone in the first place. There's some pretty interesting tech behind this actually.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I appreciate the clarification! I definitely misinterpreted the reporting about this, and clearly didn't dig deeply enough. This makes me feel a bit better about using the non-ChatGPT features.