Headline Roundup • June 11th, 2024
Elon Musk Objects to Apple’s Decision to Integrate OpenAI Into Its AI
Technology,Elon Musk,Apple,OpenAI,Artificial Intelligence,Sam Altman,Privacy,Cellphone Privacy,Data Privacy
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Apple unveiled its AI project “Apple Intelligence” which involves OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Monday, prompting an objection from Elon Musk, who said he would ban Apple devices at his companies if OpenAI is integrated at the operating system level.
Key Quotes: Musk wrote on X, “Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river.” During the announcement, however, Apple said the cloud intelligence system, named Private Cloud Compute (PCC), was created to “make sure that personal user data sent to PCC isn’t accessible to anyone other than the user—not even to Apple.”
For Context: Musk was a co-chair at OpenAI when it launched, but his relationship with CEO Sam Altman went awry when he left the company in 2018. Musk has since launched a lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI, and started his own AI company, xAI.
How The Media Covered It: Business Insider (Lean Left bias) wrote that Apple users will simply have the option to use OpenAI features and that Musk did not have evidence to back up his claim that Apple has “no clue” what happens to user data. Fox Business (Lean Right bias) noted that Musk’s post had a Community Note under it explaining that ChatGPT was an "additional feature within Apple Intelligence (that) is limited to Siri and Writing Tools and will require permission from the user for every use.” However, the Community Note under the post as of midday on June 11 did not say this.
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Elon Musk on Monday threatened to ban Apple devices at his respective companies if the tech giant integrated OpenAI at the operating system level.
Writing on X, the Tesla CEO called the prospect an "unacceptable security violation."
Should he follow through with the ban, Musk said visitors would have to check their Apple devices "at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage."
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A little over 12 hours ago, Apple announced that OpenAI’s ChatGPT would be integrated into its technology, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wasted no time battening down the hatches against the rival technology.
Formerly the world’s richest man, Musk is developing his own artificial intelligence models at EV maker Tesla and startup xAI.
xAI has already released a large language model named Grok.
But not only is ChatGPT a competitor to Musk’s own offerings, the entrepreneur also has an acrimonious history with the Sam Altman-led company.
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Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer's Conference on Monday that it will be integrating its new AI software, called Apple Intelligence, across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
It also separately announced a partnership with OpenAI, which includes the option to integrate ChatGPT powered by GPT-4o across some of its software, including its new and improved Siri. Apple said the ChatGPT integration will be available for free without an account in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia later this year.
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