It was recently announced that Apple is planning to integrate OpenAI (the makers behind ChatGPT) into their operating systems, specifically into iPhones, and Elon Musk is not happy. Musk claimed that should this decision go through, he would thereby ban Apple devices at his companies.
“That is an unacceptable security violation,” Musk wrote on a recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “And visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage.”
This comes right after Apple announced a volley of new AI features across its apps and operating systems, along with a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its devices. Apple noted that it had built AI with privacy “at the core,” and would use a combination of on-device processing to power said features, but as Musk has noted before, everything OpenAI uses is sourced from the internet, meaning that nothing it creates is original, thereby rendering it stolen from external sources.
“It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!” Musk said on X.
In march, Musk openly sued OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015, along with its CEO Sam Altman, claiming that the company abandoned its initial mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit. Musk also noted Altman’s criticism of himself, claiming that Altman called him a “species-ist”, i.e., someone that cares more about humanity than technology, something Musk said he was proud to be.
Musk founded his own startup, xAI, in an attempt to rival OpenAI and generate an alternative to the booming ChatGPT chatbot. xAi was valued at AED 88 billion.
