Apple says it took a ‘responsible’ approach to training its Apple Intelligence models- no private Apple user data is included in the data mixtureApple has published a technical paper detailing the models that it developed to power Apple Intelligence, the range of generative AI features headed to iOS, macOS and iPadOS over the next few months. In the paper, Apple pushes back against accusations that it took an ethically questionable approach to training some of its models, reiterating that it didn’t use private user data and drew on a combination of publicly available and licensed data for Apple Intelligence. “[The] pre-training data set consists of … data we have licensed from publishers, curated publicly available or open-sourced datasets and publicly available information crawled by our web crawler, Applebot,” Apple writes in the paper. “Given our focus on protecting user privacy, we note that no private Apple user data is included in the data mixture.” Apple notes in the paper that it allows webmasters to block its crawler from scraping their data. “Our models have been created with the purpose of helping users do everyday activities across their Apple products, grounded in Apple’s core values, and rooted in our responsible AI principles at every stage,” the company says.

July 30, 2024 //  by Finnovate