Apple says its Private Cloud Compute for AI processing uses servers with Apple silicon, and “independent experts can inspect the code” that runs on its servers
And publicly reviewable server code means experts can “verify this privacy promise.”
Ars Technica Kyle Orland
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Discussion
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@gwestr
Greg Wester
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This is next level
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@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place
David Frank
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I think the key part I am curious about Apple Intelligence is how they will make it a “verifiable privacy promise”. — So far no company has managed to do that. I don't think verifying some server code (which obviously doesn't include the model itself) will be sufficient. …
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@justindross
JD Ross
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Apple using Apple Silicon in its own data centers (not nVidia chips) to power Apple Intelligence Very interesting, and getting little attention so far
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@matthew_d_green This is essential
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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As best I can tell, Apple does not have explicit plans to announce when your data is going off-device for to Private Compute. You won't opt into this, you won't necessarily even be told it's happening. It will just happen. Magically. I don't love that part. 17/
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I'm still trying to work out what I think about this. So here's a thread. 1/
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@radian
Ivan Krstić
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🔺New on the Apple Security Research blog: introducing Private Cloud Compute! We believe this is the most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale. https://security.apple.com/...
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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The problem is that while modern phone “neural” hardware is improving, it's not improving fast enough to take advantage of all the crazy features Silicon Valley wants from modern AI, including generative AI and its ilk. This fundamentally requires servers. 3/
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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TL;DR: it is not easy. Building trustworthy computers is literally the hardest problem in computer security. Honestly it's almost the only problem in computer security. But while it remains a challenging problem, we've made a lot of advances. Apple is using almost all of them. 6/
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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Here's a whole lot more detail on the Private Cloud Compute system and WOW that really is some cutting edge computer science! https://security.apple.com/...
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@mysk_co
@mysk_co
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I'm reading Apple's blogpost on Private Cloud Compute, their new cloud-based environment and infrastructure for running Apple Intelligence LLM models, and this paragraph really stood out: “Private Cloud Compute hardware security starts at manufacturing, where we inventory and
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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Finally, there are so many invisible sharp edges that could exist in a system like this. Hardware flaws. Issues with the cryptographic attenuation framework. Clever software exploits. Many of these will be hard for security researchers to detect. That worries me too. 18/
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@bilawalsidhu
Bilawal Sidhu
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Ok I take it back. Apple's ‘Private Cloud Computing’ actually takes ‘Confidential Computing’ to the next level. It's SO secure that they can't even comply with law enforcement requests. > No data retention (unlike every other cloud provider) > No privileged access (even Apple [im…
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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But if you send your tasks out to servers in “the cloud” (god using quotes makes me feel 80), this means sending incredibly private data off your phone and out over the Internet. That exposes you to spying, hacking, and the data hungry business model of Silicon Valley. 4/
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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The solution Apple has come up with is to try to build secure and trustworthy hardware in their own data centers. Your phone can then “outsource” heavy tasks to this hardware. Seems easy, right? Well: here's the blog post. https://security.apple.com/... 5/
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@sweis
Steve Weis
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Apple announced a Private Cloud Compute using RSA blind signatures for pseudonymized access, publishing all software images for research, and publishing a transparency log of all running, attested code: https://security.apple.com/...