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Oh please. AI can't even draw a picture of a human with anatomically correct hands. We don't need to fear the T-1000 anytime soon.
AI does anatomically correct hands all the time. Some models tend to produce images without accurate hands.

Here is the first Dall-E output to this prompt:
Code:
Generate an image of an old man writing a letter. Detailed hands.
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The hands are quite good. Again, that's just some random prompt.

Here's another one. First image it generated. Nothing changed. Prompt:
Code:
Generate an image of a man writing a letter.

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Oh yes it is much easier.
Just one example: sending a photo from your camera roll using the share button, you have to enter the recipients name manually or go through all of your hundreds of contacts and pick one. In Whatsapp you simply land in your recent chats overview and just click on an Avatar/Chat to send it. I can‘t wrap my head around the fact that I can not do this simplest and most logical thing within iMessage. There are dozens of more examples.
Of course cross platform is a big one but all my relatives have iPhones and still use Whatsapp. When asked why, they answer „because it‘s easier to use“.
You can LITERALLY do EXACTLY the same thing in iMessage 🤷‍♂️
 
PQ3 encryption is great and all, but the fallback is still SMS... and then sometime in the Fall, it will be RCS. Apple needs to make its Messages app truly cross-platform (either by app or shared standards) before it starts crowing too much about the security of iPhone-to-iPhone communication 🤷‍♂️
 
I don’t know why everyone is so focused on AI when compared to quantum computing
Because quantum computing is not that open in general people. With chatgpt and sora, all people can access it. Quantum computer? How to use it? How much its price? Is it accessible to general people?

That thing still tooks time
 
Mossad isn't going to be happy about this. No spy agency is going to be happy about this actually. Will probably cost a fortune to figure out ways around it.
No spy agency will be happy about it as you added there so I am confused why you led with a specific singling out of Mossad.

@AlastorKatriona and @Victor Mortimer I noticed you gave this comment a thumbs down, may I know why?
 
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No, people use WhatsApp in Europe because it’s cross-platform and a lot of people use Android. Adding features to iMessage won’t increase EU usage in the slightest.
Whatsapp being the better messenger is PART of the reason why people use it over iMessage.... not just because it's cross-platform.
 
Is this one of Apple’s inventions? If so, I wonder, whether they will open-source the algorithm for world-wide auditing by security researchers. How would we know, otherwise, whether the claims Apple makes are held up by reality? If they do that, of course, others will implement the same algorithm in their messaging apps, as well.
It's as much their invention as Multi-Touch was... so no.
 
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So you disabled the functionality, but Apple is somehow worse. Sounds like user error.
I disabled everything Siri years ago. I had no clue that Siri = iMessage showing recent contacts as a horizontal line in share bar.
It is totally different though from the way you share on Whatsapp.
 
Ah… pretty sure when I hit share on my iPhone, the first section is always people I recently messaged -

I just checked and it list my discord channels as well as people I recently texted.

Now, don’t get me wrong: Every person has their right to their own opinion. But my experience with WhatsApp has been scams and other such junk that I don’t fall for. I get that random “wrong number” text and then they wanna talk and text in WhatsApp and ask me about how much money I make.
I get occasional spam on iMessage and Whatsapp. As soon as they have your number it doesn‘t really matter which messenger you use.
 
  1. Is this a standard others can adopt too... or is this a proprietary, Apple-only protocol?
  2. An Apple-centric answer to RCS or in addition to RCS?
Update: Answer to the #1 appears to be in the lengthy release...



"we" appears to be Apple Inc.

What I don't see in the release is if it is to be offered as a standard for others to adopt too or if it will remain an Apple sandbox exclusive... and thus- like Facetime- not used by MOST of the texting devices in the world. Hopefully this is not about "protecting" blue bubbles vs. green bubbles.

I thoroughly applaud the innovation but the big reward in this great security leap seems to be dependent on parties at BOTH ends of the chat using it.
It's not that complicated. The update is just math, and not proprietary; but it applies to iMessage. This does nothing to change the way the app fundamentally works from a user's perspective. Green bubbles are still SMS/RCS, and are outside of the iMessage protocol.
 
No spy agency will be happy about it as you added there so I am confused why you led with a specific singling out of Mossad.
The spy agencies designed a backdoor into some NIST newly recommended encryption protocols, so I'm pretty sure there is a backdoor in this one also. This is just too juicy for them to pass up.
 
Good move but too bad the majority of the world don't use iMessage 😅
I don’t talk to the majority of the world. The application will utilize the appropriate encryption depending on the end-to-end conversation limits.

At some point a new RCS will be published that will become a standard and quantum cryptography will be included leaving vendors able to comply without disclosing their implementation(s).
 
it’s not a cross platform CLIENT that lets people have secure imessage to imessage conversations on any device

please understand your own terms
I am not sure what your point is. I never said anything about a "CLIENT".

I am a software engineer and I understand what a client is in the context of a application and communication protocols. it's not my "own term", and I did not use it in this thread until this reply. maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
 
The whole blog post reads like a marketing mumbo jumbo...
Is there a whitepaper? Does Apple plan to make the protocol open and interoperable?

Because you know... there is already MLS and with periodic re-keying so it's a matter of using certain cyphers and encryption algorithms during the negotiation and re-keying... but it's better to sell it as something 'amazing"...


PQ3 is the next big thing for the next decade..hoping for others to join it
is there a public protocol here so others can join? or is it still bulls* walled garden, that no one can join? xDD
 
Meanwhile, here I am using Facebook Messenger even though I know Zuckerberg is probably doing the digital equivalent of reading my messages over my shoulder. 😩
 
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I am not sure what your point is. I never said anything about a "CLIENT".

I am a software engineer and I understand what a client is in the context of a application and communication protocols. it's not my "own term", and I did not use it in this thread until this reply. maybe you meant to reply to someone else?

i did and you responded to me with rcs press release
 
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