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Apple Introduces AI Feature – “Apple Intelligence”
Elon Musk Unhappy with Integration of OpenAI
Apple revealed a new generative AI feature called “Apple Intelligence” at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2024. It will be rolled out to users later this year with system updates for 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 sending any questions, documents, or photos to ChatGPT. Siri will then present the answers directly, with support provided by GPT-4o – the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
However, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is quite displeased with the practice of sending user privacy data to external companies. He even stated that if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, Apple devices will be banned from use in his companies. This is unacceptable security violation. Musk also suggested that visitors to Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies should put their Apple devices in a “Faraday cage” upon entry.
In fact, Musk’s criticism is not targeted at OpenAI, but rather at Apple handing user data to external companies, putting user security and privacy at risk. He critiqued on X:
In fact, Apple has its own AI models, and the integration with ChatGPT is limited to Siri and writing tools. Additionally, Apple emphasizes that when using ChatGPT’s features, user IP addresses will remain anonymous, and OpenAI will not store user requests. However, Musk still criticizes the fact that while Apple uses terms like “privacy protection,” they are handing user data to a third-party AI that they do not understand and cannot create themselves, which is not truly “protecting privacy”.
