OpenAI Integration: Elon Musk Vows to Ban Apple Devices at his Companies

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Hours after Apple announced “Apple Intelligence”—its new generative artificial intelligence initiatives—world’s richest man, Elon Musk, warned in a series of posts on X that if Apple “integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” all Apple devices will be banned at his companies.

Musk—who founded six companies including Tesla, SpaceX and OpenAI itself—said integrating OpenAI at the OS level “is an unacceptable security violation.”

He said in a follow up post that visitors to his companies’ offices, would “have to check their Apple devices at the door” and they would be kept in a Faraday cage, which blocks electromagnetic fields.

Yesterday, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, announced the next Apple operating system will have ChatGPT directly integrated into iPhones, which would allow the chatbot to write iMessages or answer other generative prompts.

Apple said in a release that “privacy protections are built in for users who access ChatGPT,” adding their IP addresses are obscured and OpenAI would not store requests made of it, but added that ChatGPT’s data-use policies apply.

“It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!” Musk said 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.”