If you hate the idea of your information being used to train AI, you’re going to love the minor but vital tweak Apple just made to the iOS App Store. <\/p>\n
“You must clearly disclose where personal data will be shared with third parties, including with third-party AI,” the company told app developers \u2014 adding that all apps must “obtain explicit permission before doing so.”<\/p>\n
The updated language \u2014 Apple’s first guidance on third-party AI \u2014 is part of a document called App Review Guidelines<\/a>. And lest the name fool you, the introduction makes clear that adhering to these guidelines is pretty much mandatory. <\/p>\n “We will reject apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line,” Apple tells developers later in the guidelines. “What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, ‘I’ll know it when I see it<\/a>.’ And we think that you will also know it when you cross it.”<\/p>\n The update, which dropped last week, marks the first time that AI has even been mentioned in the guidelines. Apple under CEO Tim Cook has been highly skeptical about AI<\/a>, slow to include AI features in Siri, and sometimes hesitant to even use the letters “AI”; Cook has preferred to use the similar term “machine learning” in past keynotes. <\/p>\n \n Mashable Light Speed\n <\/p>\n Sourcing data to train AI models has become one of the most legally contentious activities in Silicon Valley. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable\u2019s parent company, filed a lawsuit in April against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) <\/p>\n And even Apple, the AI laggard that is reportedly going to use Google Gemini to power Siri soon<\/a>, isn’t immune.<\/p>\n