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0 pointsjlund-molfese2y ago0 comments

I'm also looking forward to what Apple Mail and other local clients are able to do. My laptop's CPU is idle most of the time, why not use that extra CPU time to do something cool like filter spam better?

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diarrhea2y ago

Microsoft already does that, and its Antimalware agent is the bane of my existence. It will see idle machines spin up their fans to full and drain batteries within a short few hours. No thank you!

imacomputertoo2y ago

That sounds like something that's easily fixable with battery saving options. Basically, when in battery, don't do that. That would be a good default.

heavyset_go2y ago

Because that costs energy, the fact that your CPU is idle most of the time is why you can get hours of battery life.

Tostino2y ago

When plugged into the grid, it makes sense to spend a few cents of energy a day to filter out unwanted solicitations, harassment that you may not want to see, scam emails or texts, etc.

If I didn't have to worry about my grandparents getting scammed because they were having 99.99% of it effectively filtered or warned about at one layer or another before it actually became a problem...can you imagine how much you could lower that type of fraud/abuse?

MillionOClock2y ago

> When plugged into the grid

Exactly! Apple for instance already does this with some ML tasks that only run when your device is plugged in, I think it's a great compromise.

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vasco2y ago

My guess is you wouldn't lower it by much because there's more incentives for attackers than for defenders to invest in these approaches, so it's likely that by the time grandmas are running LLM-based anti-fraud tooling the attackers will already be running LLM-based attacks as well.

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