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Apple Uses Privacy Techniques to Enhance Intelligence Features

Akinola Ajibola by Akinola Ajibola
April 16, 2025
in Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise
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For almost a decade, Apple has been collecting user data in a method that cannot be linked to a specific person by employing differentiated privacy. 

In order to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Apple is creating new methods for analysing user data patterns and aggregating insights. The tech giant from Cupertino revealed these divergent privacy strategies on Monday, emphasizing that they won’t violate consumers’ privacy. In order to measure and enhance its text creation tools and Genmoji, the business is instead concentrating on collecting data, such as use patterns and data embeddings. Notably, Apple said that only devices that have chosen to share Device Analytics would have this data collected.

The iPhone manufacturer described the new method it is creating to enhance some of the Apple Intelligence capabilities in a piece on its Machine Learning Research website. With this method which also involves asking participating devices at random if they have seen a specific piece. Devices anonymously reply with a loud signal. By noisy, we mean that devices could give a randomly chosen signal for a different fragment, the actual signal of whether a fragment was detected, or no matches at all. We make sure that hundreds of users must use the same term before it can be discovered by adjusting the frequency at which devices provide randomly chosen answers. The tech giant believes that its ethical pretraining and data gathering processes for its AI models are one of the explanations for why its AI services have been lacking thus far. 

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Although this is a fair method of training large language models (LLMs) because it gives them knowledge about the world, Apple’s generative AI models are trained on synthetic data (data generated by other AI models or digital sources and not by any human). However, because the models are not learning from an individual’s style of writing and presentation, the output may appear generic and uninteresting, a phenomenon known as AI slop.

The tech giant is now considering the possibility of learning from user data without really peering at users’ private information in order to address these problems and enhance the output quality of its AI models. This method is referred to by Apple as “differential privacy.”

In order to determine popular prompts and prompt trends from customers who have chosen to share Device Analytics with Apple, the business will employ differentially private approaches for Genmoji. The iPhone manufacturer says it will give a mathematical assurance that unique or unusual prompts will not be identified and that specific prompts cannot be traced to any user.

Collecting this information will help the organization analyse the sorts of alerts that are “most representative of a real user engagement.” Essentially, Apple will be digging into the sort of prompts that lead to good output and where customers constantly add prompts to get to the desired outcome. The models’ ability to generate many entities was one example given in the post.

With upcoming releases, Apple intends to broaden this strategy for Image Playground, Image Wand, Memories Creation, and Writing Tools in both Visual Intelligence and Apple Intelligence.

Another significant area where the IT giant is adopting this technology is text generation. The method is considerably different from the one utilized with Genmoji. The business produced a series of emails covering typical subjects in order to evaluate the email generation capabilities of its tools. The business created many versions for every issue before deriving representations of the emails that contained important aspects including language, topic, and duration. Apple calls them embeddings.

A select group of users who had chosen to participate in Device Analytics were subsequently emailed these embeddings. After that, a sample of the users’ emails was compared to the artificial embeddings. “These safeguards allow Apple to create artificial intelligence data that reflects overall patterns without ever gathering or analysing user email content,” the tech giant stated.

Although it’s a clever idea to use differential privacy to enhance Apple Intelligence without directly scraping user data, I find myself wondering why something similar wasn’t used to generate Apple’s large language models that were trained on the contents of the Internet. Perhaps that’s not feasible at the scale of an LLM, or perhaps that initial model requires a level of precision that differential privacy doesn’t provide, but then John Voorheez, a writer with macstories thinks it’s reasonable to ask.

Basically, the corporation would still be able to grasp how customers like their emails to be written even if it didn’t know what was in them. Apple is now utilizing this technique to enhance email text production, and it plans to apply the same strategy to email summaries in the future.

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