Apple to analyze on-device data for AI training, vows to uphold user privacy

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: The idea of Apple analyzing data from users' devices to train its AI models isn't going to be welcomed by most people. Nevertheless, the company is taking this action as it looks to improve its Apple Intelligence services. However, Cupertino says its unique approach to this process will protect user privacy. Apple writes that its "differential privacy" approach works by first generating synthetic data to mimic the format and important properties of user data, such as emails. "When creating synthetic data, our goal is to produce synthetic sentences or emails that are similar enough in topic or style to the real thing to help improve our models for summarization, but without Apple collecting emails from the device," the company said in a post. The synthetic data is converted into what Apple calls an embedding, a numerical representation that contains key attributes such as l ... Read full article.