Just playing the devil advocate: what happens when the answers from a not-Apple LLM are garbage? Who the users are going to blame, Apple or OpenAI, Anthropic, etc..? I'm not 100% on Apple side on this, I would love to chose whatever I want, even local models, but I get why trey trying to control 100% of the user experience. If they could trust any provider with customers data, they would let them in, since they're not competitors. They would even let Apple not spend a ton of money on developing LLMs....

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layer8 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are people blaming Apple when Google search in Safari gives garbage results? Some probably are, but that really shouldn’t be a relevant discussion, in particular when the user explicitly chose which AI backend to use.

	▲	sigbottle 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, we can generalize this a bit to model routing in general. Actually, just AI in general - even when directly interacting with GPT we haven't figured out good protocols yet.

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aNoob7000 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you are smart enough to change the default, you would know which LLM you picked and could point the finger at it.

Apple is in the game of providing an application platform. Maybe in the future they will provide their own LLM.