On Monday, at a press conference in Cupertino, California, Apple announced its own artificial intelligence named Apple Intelligence, which will be integrated into all its devices. The company is also newly collaborating with OpenAI.
iPhone owners will soon be able to use the ChatGPT 4.0 chatbot, which will be integrated directly into the operating system’s features. Apple announced this at the WWDC technology conference on Monday.
This angered billionaire Elon Musk, for whom OpenAI is a competitor. “If Apple integrates OpenAI tools at the operating system level, Apple devices will be strictly banned in my companies,” he threatened on the social network X.
Musk owns the social network X and leads the space company SpaceX and the car manufacturer Tesla. He is also behind the startup xAI, which is developing its own artificial intelligence.
“Visitors will be checked, and their Apple devices will have to be left at the entrance, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” he emphasized, adding that he wants to prevent OpenAI devices from accessing his networks.
“Apple has no idea what will actually happen when it hands over your data to OpenAI,” Musk warned, accusing the creators of ChatGPT of selling user data.
At the press conference, Apple stressed that user data security is the company’s top priority. There will also be a setting option for users to choose whether OpenAI can work with their data. Neither Apple nor OpenAI have yet responded to Musk’s comments.
