Affiliate Disclosure If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Read our ethics policy . Elon Musk's latest anti-Apple tirade is about a ChatGPT feature that doesn't exist Wesley Hilliard | Jun 10, 2024 Apple and OpenAI partnered to bring ChatGPT to Siri 3 Facebook x.
com Reddit OpenAI is one of several partners Apple will enable to communicate with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18 and other operating systems later in 2024. The partnership allows for private and secure queries to third-party LLMs with complete control over what is sent and when. Apple was clear in its announcement of ChatGPT integration with iOS 18 that every query would be user-approved and only available in select use cases.
It appears that Elon Musk hasn't seen the keynote — or is willingly misinterpreting what was said — because he has shared a series of increasingly deranged posts on X speculating on data theft and nuclear warfare. His first post suggests that if "Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level," he will ban Apple devices from his companies. Visitors to his companies will have to leave their devices in a Faraday cage.
Musk accuses Apple of not knowing enough about the technology to ensure data safety. In the usual Musk fashion, each post gets further down a conspiratorial rabbit hole. Elon Musk drawing incorrect conclusions on X What's actually happening with ChatGPT Later in 2024, when Apple enables ChatGPT functionality in iOS 18, it will be opt-in and on a per-query basis.
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