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Apple Uses Machine Learning To Chronicle All the Bra Pics On Your iPhone (vice.com)
New submitter bumblebaetuna shares a report from Motherboard: It's already well known that iOS 11 included some advanced updates to the phone's artificial intelligence, and this includes improving the photo app's ability to identify and categorize what is in each of your photos. There are thousands of objects the phone can identify, ranging from "abacus" to "zucchini." Weirdly, despite not having categories for, say, "nude," or "underwear," there are multiple categories for bra: brassiere, bandeau, bandeaus, bra, bras, and brassieres. Searching for this folder in your photos app may reveal an unexpected surprise. Though there are some pretty archaic terms like "homburg," "habiliment," and "danseuse," the "bra" category is unusual compared to the other quotidian labels the app slaps on your photos, and is as risque as the terms get.
Must be Halloween if the Slashdot editors can't keep their minds out of the dumpster and thinking about what happens after dark.
This new sort tool will come in handy for the next fappening.
Brabook.com is mine!!!
Not sure how this is a big deal, a bra doesn't reveal any more than any bikini top does. *shrug*
"Danseuse", mentioned in the summary and TFA, is French for a ballet dancer. Also, sometimes, a lady of negotiable virtue.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Can iOS users turn off this categorizing? I don't want software to analyze my pictures, documents, etc. without my consent.
That's what Siri is doing in there, sorting my photos... She gives me the creeps....
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
A homburg hat might be obscure among the general population, but I would not be surprised if there's a disproportionate overlap between those that actually do know what a homburg hat is and have one featured in one's photos, and iPhone users that actually would seek to use these entirely unnecessary functions.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Is how they arrived at the list of categories that it caters for. You'd think it would make sense to support terms that people commonly search for (which might explain "bras", but "Floppy disks"?)
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I don't want my phone analyzing my pictures. Fuck Apple.
Can it identify a hotdog?
Hotdog
Not hotdog
Eggplant
What's up brah? https://www.urbandictionary.co... Also, there's a comet diving towards the sun. https://www.space.com/33651-co...
I'm sure outsourcing to India would be cheaper, perhaps even gain profits
I suspect you're just not very familiar with nice bras. There are other interesting variations on bra design as well. Many of them are quite sensual. Go to google, make sure the nanny safe search is off, enter "transparent lace bra" as the search term, and then click on "Images."
Very few sightings of bikinis will look like that.
And then there are the metal / chain bras. Kill the safesearch, use "chain bra OR bralette", search, the click images.
You can search "cupless bra" as well for something a bit different.
There are definitely some interesting looks out there that leave most bikinis in the dust.
If you're really lucky, you'll hook up with someone who knows to wear them, too. :)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Not an expressed term
Q: Lady, would you sleep with me for a million dollars?
A: Yes, I would.
Q: Would you sleep with me for a dollar?
A: What do you think I am?!?!
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
in their photo apps and cloud photo album... I use it like every time I try to find one of my (10!)^256! pictures
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
The article points to Apple's support site that states clearly "When you search your photos, all of the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device."
It is great that the AI is finally moving off the cloud and onto the device. This is where it belongs. We should be highly praising any software that implements personal assistance features like this locally. They have the potential of eventually supporting personal clouds made up of nothing but my devices with cradle to grave encryption.
Apple's provision of end-to-end encryption of user data stored in their cloud forces this architecture. They don't have the ability to decrypt your photos stored in iCloud and analyze them on a cloud server. So they have to do it on the device. Kudos to Apple for taking the high road instead of the easy road.
We should have no concerns whatsoever about what it is capable of recognizing. Ultimately, I want it to be capable of accurately recognizing anything in the pictures. Why not? Both the analysis and the photos are stored with the same security. If an attacker can get the analysis, then they can just skip that and get the photos instead.
The important thing is secure storage of both the picture and any analysis of it and that neither ever leaves my device pool at any point in time without explicit intentional action on my part such as "sharing" a photo. Apple is almost all of the way there. I'd like to have the further option of pulling the encrypted cloud storage out of the picture and just have my devices automatically synchronize to each other.
And they screenshot things and take photos in shops, take photos when they try clothes on in fitting rooms.
How difficult is this to understand?
All those bra pics in my phone are for research. I swear. The boobies too.
what about the bro? a bet there's a large percentage of slashdotter's that feel the same way
For now your average compact camera, SLR is not been evil.
Take your own images, enjoy them and keep them well away from the cloud.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Moving off your phone? It ain't an or operation..
Seriously. Did the last 11.1 update on my iphone. What's the first and main improvement of that update that Apple brags about? "70 new emoji"! Meanwhile many bugs are left unaddressed and my gps is still dancing around some location which is not where I am. Really, Apple, get the work done right first and try to inject some new features after that has been successfully done.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Somewhere at Apple is a Dev with a Bra Fetish.
These are not archaic terms. They are fairly common terms for literate people. Oh that's right. This is Slashdot.
Let me fix that for you:
These are not archaic terms. They are fairly common terms for people with underwear fetishes.
I think 3000 less emoji would be a feature that would motivate me to consider using that product.
I turn off GPS, I'm annoying that it still knows where I am and that it keeps asking me all the time if I want to turn GPS back on.
iPhone trannies love bras.
And Android Trannies prefer...?