| Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier(8rank.ai) | |
| 846 points by infwhispers 4 days ago | 449 comments | |
tl;dr: Since 2022, macOS ships two undocumented daemons (knowledgeconstructiond and intelligenceplatformd) that build a local SQLite knowledge graph of the user's life, cross-referencing Contacts, Photos, Calendar, Messages, Mail, location, and Screen Time into 181 entity classes and 278 predicates. It goes beyond copying data: shipped XGBoost classifiers score who counts as "family" using 144 features—including things like "photosPersonPosteriorProbabilityGivenSaturdayNight"—and an on-device LLM infers names and relationships for faces. Deleted entries persist in an expired_stable_graph table, and the author released an open-source dashboard (iKnow) to inspect it. | |
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