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> but even if there's a 0.0001% chance the AI will send a sensitive image meant for your wife to your boss, you should probably reconsider shipping.

That's too low of a probability for Apple to care. The probability that YOU would do it yourself by some random series of accidents is probably orders of magnitude higher than that.

Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentally sending one to the wrong person!?



> Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentally sending one to the wrong person!?

That seems like the wrong way to spin this hypothetical probability.

A quick search says there are 1.38B iPhone users worldwide. According to[0], 87.8% of 18+ year olds have sexted, so let's estimate that to mean 1.21B users. Even if we assume users only ever send one nude, that means 1,210 gaffes if you assume one in a million.

[0] https://www.womens-health.com/sexting-statistics


It's the other way around. The probability is so low that it is incredibly unlikely to happen to any given individual. You would have to be paranoid to worry about it. On the other hand the probability is so high that, when considering the size of Apple's user base, such incidents would happen regularly.


They mean that the baseline probability of someone manually doing that to themselves without AI is higher than that.


There's a "sensational news story" multiplier.




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