Apple won't say it explicitly, but this change is designed to limit access to data that can be used to build systems or applications that understand the context of the things you're working on on this machine. This is just one small example of Apple's strategy to build the world's smartest operating system. The operating system's built-in artificial intelligence-based assistants need screenshots over time to understand context. A picture is worth a thousand words. A vein of gold.
Unfortunately their strategy of being the smartest involves making sure no-one else can make better system on a Mac.
I you are the only game in town, you are by definition the best.
It was introduced in 10.14 (2018) before all the llm and especially the multimodal mambo jambo. I am all for a good conspiracy theory but this is a bit much especially because it's more lenient now...
He understood the software architecture quite early on while working on the following repository. He connected the dots from his other projects and went rogue. (probably to benefit from crypto?). Take a look at his other repositories and code style and recent likes on github. Is he our Jia Tan?
I've been feeling that way for a decade at least. As someone once said, the market can remain foolishly optimistic longer than you can remain solvent (while shorting an over inflated stock).
Never underestimate the power of everyone doing crazy things to make them not crazy. Housing prices in the US have been crazy long enough that the whole system is bought in to these levels it seems. Of course reality could be different in a few weeks or months but the bubble in real estate has been going on for a significant fraction of my adult life.
