One of the replies in this thread sent me to transparency.dev which describes transparency logs as something different. But reading Apple's description doesn't change my opinion on this. It is a supply-chain / MITM protection measure and does absolutely nothing to assuage my privacy concerns.
Bottom line, I just hope that there will be a big checkbox in the iPhone's settings that completely turns off all "cloud compute" for AI scenarios (checked by default) and I hope it gets respected everywhere. But they're making such a big deal of how "private" this data exfiltration service is that I fear they plan to just make it default on (or not even provide an opt-out at all).
Bottom line, I just hope that there will be a big checkbox in the iPhone's settings that completely turns off all "cloud compute" for AI scenarios (checked by default) and I hope it gets respected everywhere. But they're making such a big deal of how "private" this data exfiltration service is that I fear they plan to just make it default on (or not even provide an opt-out at all).