Apple announced this Monday at WWDC 2024 an alliance with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to iOS, iPadOS and macOS. The news, partly expected by a wave of rumors and leaks, has provoked the reaction of Elon Musk, who has dropped a threat amid his concerns about issues such as privacy and security.
The businessman has said that he will ban Apple devices in his companies if the apple firm “integrates OpenAI at the operating system level.” In addition, he has described the agreement as “an unacceptable security violation” and has indicated that visitors will have to leave their Apple devices in “a Faraday cage” at the entrance to the offices.
Elon Musk attacks Apple
Musk continued posting messages on did not specify any prohibition. Musk, let us remember, boasts leadership positions at Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter) and Neuralink.
A ban on Apple products (we don’t know if only the iPhone or also the iPad and Mac) would be a fairly drastic measure. In any case, we must mention that many of the things that Musk says do not usually come true, although his words achieve a certain media impact due to his role in the business world.
We will have to wait to find out what will happen, although momentarily we can analyze Apple’s announcement. The Cupertino company will boost most of the artificial intelligence functions of its systems with own language modelsalthough they have said that they want users to use external models.
“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, then Apple devices will be banned from my companies. That is an unacceptable security breach.”
The agreement with OpenAI is part of that effort. iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 users will be able to access ChatGPT with GPT-4o for free through the new Siri and the system’s writing tools. Apple promises that requests “will not be logged” and that it will ask questions before sending information to OpenAI.
Siri’s new abilities, such as better language understanding, will work with Apple Intelligence. However, when we ask a question that requires outside information, the voice assistant tells us will ask permission to share the question with ChatGPT. We can also include images or documents as presentations.
Siri will ask for permission before sending a question to ChatGPT
At the writing level, ChatGPT will help us write content anywhere in the system, as well as generate images. We can use it, for example, to write a story and illustrate it. At this point it is unclear what the process of activating OpenAI’s conversational chatbot features in the system will be like.
It should be noted that Apple has promised that it will add support for other external AI models in the future, so it is possible that we will also see Google or Anthropic technology integrated. We should also not lose sight of the fact that Musk has been promoting a crusade with OpenAI for some time.
The businessman sued the company led by Sam Altman earlier this year for failing to comply with its founding principles. In the midst of the controversy, a version came to light that claimed that Musk, who had been part of the founding team of OpenAI, wanted to merge the startup with Tesla.
Things did not end well and Musk He ended up leaving in February 2018, also apparently to avoid a conflict of interest because the electric vehicle company was also working with AI for its autonomous driving systems. Additionally, he currently has his own AI company called X.AI. This can help us better understand what is happening today.
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