Diarist Abandons Day One Over Apple AI Journal Privacy Fears
A lifelong diarist ditched the Day One app after Apple revealed its AI-powered Journal at WWDC. The promise of “on-device machine learning” that mines your contacts, photos and habits for writing prompts felt creepy—especially after the Photos app once resurfaced an image of the author’s mother’s open casket. They’d rather face a blank page than an algorithm’s memories.