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