It’s 2025. Let’s stop grading generative AI on a curve

Let this be the year that the tech industry holds its use of AI to the highest standard of all: mundane dependability.

Compared to other tech giants, Apple’s approach to generative AI is strikingly measured. Its new “Apple Intelligence” errs on the side of sidestepping functionality that could go awry or be misused: Image Playground, for example, produces only cheerfully synthetic Pixar-esque graphics, not anything that might be mistaken for a photograph.