This is an opt-in feature. You can enable it for yourself. It is also available as a parental control for your kid's devices. I think that is 100% appropriate.

I don't want to see dick pic spam. Actually I don't want anyone to send me naked pictures. Previously it was up to every messaging app to figure this out themselves. Now they can use the Sensitive Content Analysis framework. It also means they don't need to give PTSD to humans building a model to classify crap like CSAM images.

All it does is detection. It is up to the app whether to prohibit sending/receiving the message, how to notify the user, etc. The API documentation says this:

> Apple provides the SensitiveContentAnalysis framework to prevent people from viewing unwanted content, not as a way for an app to report on someone’s behavior. To protect user privacy, don’t transmit any information off the user’s device about whether the SensitiveContentAnalysis framework has identified an image or video as containing nudity. For more information, see the Developer Program License Agreement.

This is how they sold it: of course, nobody wants to see unsolicited dick pics. Good framing, they obviously pay their marketing department very well. Yet, consider how many unsolicited dick pics you actually see in a day, week, or month- and if sometimes blocking a % of them is worth permanently ceding more privacy to Apple.

If you’re seeing so many dick pics to where this is positive trade off for you, you need to reflect on how you’re interacting with the web.

Some of my female friends get them quite regularly. So idk.

I’m going to go on a limb and guess you’re a dude.

I suggest you expand your social circle and talk to some women that are moderately active on social media.

Women are nowadays confronted with their face generated on fake porn by AI, hell some are confronted with generated sexual abuse as a form of threat and harassment if they piss off the wrong person, and you’re out here talking about dick pics.

What’s worse is that you just couldn’t resist to add a dash of misogynistic victim blaming as a cherry on top.

> permanently ceding more privacy to Apple

How is on-device image classification "ceding more privacy"? Because an OS vendor provided it?

> If you’re seeing so many [...] you need to reflect on how you’re interacting with the web

Are you seriously claiming not to understand the concept of SPAM and info leaks?

I mean, you can just click the button to send the nudes. It's a sign, not a cop.

Who is it stopping? You can literally click through. It LITERALLY says that it’s your choice.

Most people on HN are from the same cultural niche Apple is located in, in a country founded by actual bonafide Puritans.

Of course they are OK with a machine being an obnoxious prude.

It’s not even being prudish. It’s clearly informing you that hey, be careful about sending nudes because you might not realize the consequences – the messaging is about as nonjudgmental as it gets. As someone who has who has literally made amateur porn and probably as far from prude at it gets, this really doesn’t register on my prude detector.