Apple announces launch of AI feature Musk angrily warns Integration with OpenAI will result in companywide ban

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Apple Introduces AI Feature – “Apple Intelligence”
Musk Unhappy with Integration of OpenAI
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2024, Apple revealed a new generative AI feature called “Apple Intelligence,” 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 queries to ChatGPT when necessary. Users will be asked for consent before Siri sends any questions, documents, or photos to ChatGPT, and then Siri will directly present the answers. This feature will be supported by GPT-4o, the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
However, Tesla CEO Musk is quite unhappy with the practice of sending user privacy data to external companies, even stating that if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, Apple devices will be banned from use in his companies. This is considered an unacceptable security violation. Musk also suggests that visitors to Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies must put their Apple devices in a “Faraday cage” upon entry.
In fact, Musk’s criticism is not aimed at OpenAI, but at Apple handing user data to external companies, putting user security and privacy at risk. He criticized on X:
In fact, Apple has its own AI model, and the integration with ChatGPT is limited to Siri and writing tools. Furthermore, Apple emphasizes that when using the ChatGPT function, user IP addresses will remain anonymous, and OpenAI will not store user requests. However, Musk still criticizes the fact that Apple, while using terms like “privacy protection,” is handing user data to a third-party AI that they do not understand and cannot create on their own, which is not truly “protecting privacy.”