Author: Brayden Lindrea, CoinTelegraph; Translated by: Deng Tong, Jinse Finance
Billionaire Elon Musk has threatened to ban the use of Apple devices at his company if Apple integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT into its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems.
Musk emphasized in a June 10 X post: "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, then Apple devices will be banned from use at my company. This is an unacceptable security violation."
Musk even suggested that visitors to Tesla, SpaceX and other companies he runs should "store their Apple devices in a Faraday cage" when they enter.
Source: Elon Musk
At Apple's 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, the tech giant announced "Apple Intelligence" — a new set of generative AI features — that will roll out to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia later this year.
Bloomberg leaked the development over the weekend.
One feature will allow Apple’s voice assistant Siri to forward user questions to ChatGPT when necessary. “The user will be asked any questions and any documents or photos before they are sent to ChatGPT, and Siri will then display the answers directly.”
This feature will be powered by GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest version of ChatGPT.
But Musk said it was "patently ridiculous" that Apple was "not smart enough" to make its own AI, and suggested they were undermining their interests by outsourcing privacy and security to their customers. "They're selling you out."
"Apple saying 'protecting your privacy' while handing your data over to a third-party AI they don't understand and can't create themselves is not protecting privacy at all," Musk said in another X post.
But Musk did not provide details of the privacy protections embedded in the OpenAI integration, so his X post triggered the "readers add context" feature.
It provided a link to Apple’s press statement, explaining that user IP addresses will remain hidden and OpenAI will not store requests.
Source: Elon Musk
The news of Apple Intelligence did not spark a price increase for AI-related cryptocurrencies.
According to data from Coingecko, Render (RNDR), Fetch.ai (FET), and SingularityNET (AGIX) have fallen by 5.9%, 3.3%, and 3.9%, respectively, in the past 24 hours.
