The Pizza Is the Model

This week, Federico and John recap WWDC week with more on their early testing of the iOS and iPadOS 18 betas and an in-depth conversation about why they are disappointed with Apple’s decision to train its large language models on the Open Web.

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Links and Show Notes

WWDC Recap

• Related:
  • iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview
  • NPC: Next Portable Console, We Are All Vita People

Apple’s Large Language Models

• Opting Out of AI Model Training
• Apple Details Its AI Foundation Models and Applebot Web Scraping
• Apple Intelligence: The MacStories Overview
• Also:
  • Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
  • AI Is Strip Mining the Web
  • Ruminate, Episode 179, Full of Spicy Takes

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