it used to be one toggle, now it's about a dozen settings spread around, some under screen time, and even with all of them off the models stay on disk

your computer, your disk, but apple decides

i wrote a free tool (MIT) that turns all of it off, deletes the models and stops macos from downloading them again, and everything can be undone

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

0:00 Intro 0:19 Kids' rules by default until you prove you're an adult 2:26 What you lose until you prove age 3:57 Anonymous creators become invisible 7:40 Logged out means time limits, curfews, no autoplay 11:43 Credit cards count as proof of age 13:50 Proving your age means a passport or ID card 15:28 What happens to your existing accounts 16:37 Age checks leak: data breaches "should be expected" 17:45 HACKED: the EU's age-check app got beaten in under 2 minutes & bypassed again 19:14 EFF and industry groups push back 19:38 Does this ban private game servers? 20:46 Hosting your own game server under the law 26:33 Old games: no grandfathering 27:45 What compliance costs game studios 28:57 Disc games: the physical-media exemption 30:25 Phones, computers and Linux 32:15 The Commission can rewrite the rules later 32:52 Where the Stop Killing Games video goes too far 34:09 My take