Maybe the technical details weren’t available, but I thought that we already knew this was a thing? I was aware that my Mac and iPhone were indexing various sources like this on device for Siri.

What about iphones?

Is this a way to query this from the command line? I'd rather not give a random piece of software deliberate access to personal data...

I have a few questions:

Is it unencrypted and accessible by other applications without elevated permissions?

Can I modify it at will and does it persist if so?

Decent work, if unreadable. I’ve disabled Apple Intelligence now.

Previously discussed in 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521306

Stallman being upset about not having the source to printer drivers seems quaint these days.

This is exactly why we should not have closed source anything at the bottom.

Why is my computer so slow? Idk, maybe it's making a map of your socialsphere. Yeah right! Right?

Apple doesn't need you to not buy ram to make it work for them. Joke's on Sam.

If Microsoft didn't this, this wouldn't be interesting research, but a cause for uproar. And yes, I know they're probably already doing it, but in the cloud.

Apple makes money of your data as does anyone else. The just use your compute and energy for it too and convinced everyone that was privacy.

On a long enough timeline, all closed-source software turns into spyware.