I said no and Apple said yes

我说了“不”，但苹果说了“是”

I said no and Apple said yes Tuesday 22 Sept 2026. The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off. 我说了“不”，但苹果说了“是”。2026年9月22日星期二。写博客的好处在于，我可以精确地记录下：2025年2月5日星期三上午9:51，我发现 macOS 15.3 启用了一项功能，该功能每隔15分钟就会向总部发送个人数据。当时我说“不”，并将其关闭了。

At the time Apple were generous enough to provide a setting to disable this feature. Although they hid the second part deeper, because why should saying “no” be easy? 当时，苹果还算慷慨，提供了一个禁用此功能的设置。尽管他们把第二部分的设置藏得更深，毕竟，说“不”怎么能变得容易呢？

Last week I succumbed to Apple’s harassment and upgraded macOS 15 to 27. I only skipped one major version, Apple skipped 10! And today I discovered that Apple had removed the “no” switch. 上周，我屈服于苹果的“骚扰”，将 macOS 从 15 升级到了 27。我只跳过了一个大版本，而苹果直接跳过了 10 个！今天我发现，苹果已经移除了那个“不”的开关。

The “AI” industry has many flaws, the word “consent” being seemingly missing from training data and company handbooks is one of them. AI bros do not take “no” for an answer. When Apple advertised their deepfake feature back in June it became obvious Apple does not “think different.” “人工智能”行业有很多缺陷，其中之一就是“同意”这个词似乎从他们的训练数据和公司手册中消失了。AI 狂热者们从不接受“不”作为答案。当苹果在六月份宣传他们的深度伪造（deepfake）功能时，很明显，苹果已经不再“不同凡想”（think different）了。

Digging through macOS 27 settings I turned off Siri (again). Of course, multiple unkillable Siri processes remain, stealing memory and writing data. For what purpose? Who knows. Note that they removed “Apple Intelligence” from this control. 在 macOS 27 的设置中翻找后，我（再次）关闭了 Siri。当然，多个无法杀死的 Siri 进程依然在后台运行，占用内存并写入数据。目的是什么？谁知道呢。请注意，他们已经从这个控制选项中移除了“Apple Intelligence”。

Trawling the web I discovered Apple has hidden settings under “Screen Time” restrictions. This is supposed to be for parental controls. These settings don’t disable Apple “Intelligence” but they do clean up various menus by hiding the slop tools. 在网上搜索后，我发现苹果将设置隐藏在了“屏幕使用时间”的限制选项下。这本应是用于家长控制的。这些设置并不能禁用 Apple “Intelligence”，但它们确实通过隐藏那些垃圾工具清理了各种菜单。

All of this garbage was enabled after upgrading to macOS 27 despite me having “Apple Intelligence & Siri” turned off already. That was a rather explicit “no”, no? 尽管我已经关闭了“Apple Intelligence 和 Siri”，但在升级到 macOS 27 后，所有这些垃圾功能还是被启用了。这已经是一个相当明确的“不”了，不是吗？

The icing on this cake is the 22.28 GB brick clogging my disk space. Apple is charging £500/TB on new MacBooks so that is what, £11 they’ve stolen from me? But that’s a trivial cost compared to the consent problem. 更糟糕的是，这 22.28 GB 的“砖头”文件占用了我的磁盘空间。苹果在新 MacBook 上每 TB 收费 500 英镑，算下来他们从我这儿偷走了大约 11 英镑？但与“同意”问题相比，这只是微不足道的代价。

The AI industrial complex does not do consent. You will use it. You cannot look away, it will be stuffed down your throat and if you say “no” they’ll cut out your tongue. 人工智能工业复合体根本不在乎“同意”。你必须使用它。你无法回避，它会被强行塞进你的喉咙；如果你说“不”，他们就会割掉你的舌头。

The AI industry is vile. My AI policy tried to list my concerns but it’s hopelessly outdated. I can’t keep up. Here’s just three of many headlines I collected this month: AI 行业是卑劣的。我的 AI 政策曾试图列出我的担忧，但现在已经彻底过时了。我跟不上他们的节奏。以下是我本月收集的众多头条新闻中的三条：

• Despite Pledges From Musk, Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X
• OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
• OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
• 尽管马斯克做出承诺，X 平台上仍充斥着儿童性虐待材料
• OpenAI 目前面临超过 50 起消费者伤害和非正常死亡诉讼
• OpenAI 和微软承认大语言模型正在摧毁网络，且建立在盗窃基础之上

The list is endless. There is no limit to the human toll to keep this bubble inflated. Call me a radical but I’ve chosen not to kowtow to billionaires. Do you want another Epstein list? Because this is how you create another Epstein list. Fund a generation of psychopaths building on a foundation of non-consent and privacy invasion. Fantastic idea! 这份名单无穷无尽。为了维持这个泡沫，人类付出的代价没有上限。你可以说我是激进分子，但我选择不对亿万富翁卑躬屈膝。你想要另一个“爱泼斯坦名单”吗？因为这就是制造下一个爱泼斯坦名单的方式：资助一代建立在“非自愿”和“侵犯隐私”基础上的心理变态者。真是个好主意！

AI bros keep telling me “just turn it off” and when I do they remove the choice. AI 狂热者们一直告诉我“关掉它就行了”，而当我真的去关掉时，他们却移除了这个选项。