Three months ago, Apple debuted a tool that makes it easy for companies to opt out of its AI training, and it appears that several major companies have used it.
Unlike Google, Apple has been offering companies millions of dollars to allow its AI to use crawlers to scrape data to train Apple Intelligence. As part of the deal, companies can elect for certain files to be omitted from the AI's training. This omission is controlled by an extension to Applebots. Applebots were originally released in 2015 and were designed to crawl the internet to power features like Siri and Spotlight, however, they have since been repurposed to train Apple Intelligence.
