Curious the hangover that the WWDC Keynote that Apple held a few hours ago in Cupertino. There the Californian company has revealed all the new features coming to its operating systems, and above all a great new feature, Apple Intelligencewhich brings together all the tools based on generative artificial intelligence that the company is going to integrate into its operating systems, starting with Siri in iOS 18. And we say curious because Elon Musk has revolted against the integration of ChatGPT into Apple’s operating system, and what he announced during the event.
What’s wrong with Elon Musk with ChatGPT and iOS 18?
How could it not be otherwise? Magnate He has made his threats about Apple on his social network X, where he has literally said the following:
- If Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, Apple devices will be banned from my companies. This is an unacceptable security breach.
The animosity that Musk feels towards OpenAI, a company in which he participated in its beginnings, is well known, since he considers that their use of this artificial intelligence technology is anything but safe. Hence he warns that this would be an unacceptable security breach. And the direct consequence of this is that, if Apple’s plans with Open AI go ahead, the tycoon promises to ban Apple devices in his companies due to the risks he sees in this association.
There have been many messages on X where Elon Musk has shown his disagreement, with different memes and with some quite direct messages about what he thinks of this collaboration between both companies. For Musk, The data when it leaves the iPhone to reach the ChatGPT servers will no longer be secureliterally claims that Apple has no idea what really happens once they hand over their data to OpenAI.
And he may not be wrong, but in the same way that millions of users use ChatGPT’s AI every day without thinking about where their data will end up, the same will obviously happen with all that traffic generated on iPhones. Now, we do not know the scope that Musk’s veto of Apple devices would have, and at what level it could be carried out. We could understand that at the company level your employees cannot introduce iPhone in their offices or dealerships.
But the big question is, for example,could veto the use of iPhone in its Tesla? To precisely prevent the data that comes from their vehicles to the iPhones and vice versa from having any interaction with ChatGPT’s AI at some point and reaching its servers outside the reach of Musk’s own company. It certainly seems that there will be no other alternative, since today Apple’s plans have become quite clear, since ChatGPT is going to be integrated in one way or another into iOS 18 in the coming months.
