Apple Intelligence Sparks Controversy With Elon Musk

Should Apple include OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its Apple operating systems, billionaire Elon Musk has vowed to forbid Apple products at his enterprises.

“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation,” Musk stated in a June 10 X post.

Musk even recommended that guests of Tesla, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and other businesses he owns have Apple gadgets “stored in a Faraday cage” upon arrival.

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Apple Intelligence and Privacy Concerns

Revealing “Apple Intelligence,” a package of fresh generative AI technologies, Apple stated during its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10 that it will be pushed out to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia later this year.

Over the weekend, Bloomberg leaked developments on this.

One tool will let Siri, Apple’s speech assistant, forward user questions to ChatGPT when needed. Before any inquiries are forwarded to ChatGPT, users are asked along with any documentation or images, and Siri then provides the answer straight away.

GPT-4o, OpenAI’s most recent ChatGPT variant, would drive the capability.

Musk claimed, however, that Apple “isn’t smart enough” to create its own artificial intelligence and advised that they would be mistreating their consumers by contracting out privacy and security. “They are marketing you down the river.”

Musk stated in another X post, “Apple using the words “guard your privacy” while handing your data over to a third-party AI that they don’t understand and cannot themselves create is not protecting privacy at all.”