Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to address a rare problem where deleted photos would reappear on a user’s...
  • @Valmond
    -6•6 months ago

    Yeah they keep it for AI training.

    Such bs.

    • Sam Clemente
      4•6 months ago

      @Valmond @ozymandias117 oh so we’re still doing the baseless-accusation-without-knowing-how-it-works thing?

      They keep deleted photos for a time in iCloud in case someone comes looking for them

      Every cloud storage provider does it, every mail server does it, it’s incredibly commonplace

      • @ozymandias117English
        1•6 months ago

        The article specifically states that iCloud wasn’t related to the bug

        • Sam Clemente
          0•6 months ago

          @ozymandias117 I see now

          Then how would they be training AI on it? If they don’t have it? If it’s on device what’s the problem? Deleting a photo doesn’t wipe the bits to 0, it never has

          • @ozymandias117English
            1•6 months ago

            I never made that claim, my man

            I just wanted some more information about how the on-device database corruption led to restoring pictures

            Those are generally opposites

            On spinning disks, it’s significantly easier to restore data after a delete, but it’s not normally as easy on flash storage like they’re using