Apple announces AI feature launch Musk angrily declares Integration with OpenAI results in companywide ban

Apple announces AI feature launch Musk angrily declares Integration with OpenAI results in companywide ban

Apple announces AI feature launch Musk angrily declares Integration with OpenAI results in companywide ban

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Apple launches AI feature – “Apple Intelligence”
Musk dissatisfied with integrating OpenAI
Apple revealed a new generative AI feature – “Apple Intelligence” at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2024, which will be rolled out to users later this year with the system updates of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.
One of the features will allow Apple’s voice assistant Siri to pass user questions to ChatGPT when necessary. Users will be asked for consent before sending any questions, documents, or photos to ChatGPT, and Siri will present the answers directly afterward. This feature will be supported by GPT-4o – the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
However, Tesla CEO Musk is quite dissatisfied with the practice of sending user privacy data to external companies, even stating that Apple devices will be banned from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level. This is considered an unacceptable security violation. Musk also suggested that visitors to Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies should put their Apple devices in a “Faraday cage” upon entry.
In fact, Musk’s criticism is not directed at OpenAI itself, but rather at Apple handing user data to external companies, putting user security and privacy at risk. He criticized on X:
In fact, Apple actually has its own AI model, and the integration with ChatGPT is limited to Siri and writing tools. Additionally, Apple emphasizes that when invoking ChatGPT’s functions, user IP addresses will remain anonymized, and OpenAI will not store user requests. However, Musk still criticizes the fact that while Apple uses terms like “privacy protection,” they are handing user data to a third-party AI that they do not understand and did not create themselves, which is not truly “protecting privacy.”