Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders AI-generated emoji!
@paulrobertlloyd (I whole-heartedly agree with the notion of this post - but those are generated on-device... The bigger issue with Apple's new generators, is that they too were trained on stolen stuff! 😤)
@Havn Not sure if true for the ‘genmoji’, but sounds like the new AI tools require recent hardware, so there is still an environmental cost, even if in this case not due to cloud computing. But yeah, that too. 😞
@paulrobertlloyd If Apple artificially make it so it only works on newer devices, that's one thing. But I don't think it's generally unethical to make new features that take advantage of newer hardware.
In general Apple is pretty good when it comes to giving software features to older devices - but I kinda get this one: Doing all those stuff locally does use a lot of compute. And the Mac and iPad side of things, that it's M1 and up is pretty decent. But that it doesn't work on iPhone 15 or 14 Pro is pretty rough, absolutely. But I also think it's understandable that they didn't want to limit what they could ship to things that also works on old phones.