Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he would ban his company from using Apple products if the iPhone maker integrated OpenAI at the operating system level.
“This is an unacceptable security breach,” said Musk, who is CEO of electric car maker Tesla and rocket maker SpaceX and owner of social media company X. Post to X.
“Visitors will then have to deposit their Apple devices at the entrance, which will be stored in a Faraday cage,” he said.
Apple and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
On the same day, Apple announced that it would be integrating a number of AI features into its apps and operating platform, and would partner with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT technology to its devices.
Apple said it is building its AI with privacy “at its core,” and that these features will be powered by a combination of on-device processing and cloud computing.
“It’s patently absurd that Apple can guarantee that OpenAI will protect the security and privacy of its users when they’re not smart enough to develop their own AI!” Musk said on X.
Musk filed a lawsuit in early March against OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015, and its CEO Sam Altman, claiming that the startup had abandoned its original mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity, rather than for profit.
Musk also founded his own startup, xAI, to challenge OpenAI and build an alternative to the popular chatbot ChatGPT.
xAI was valued at $24 billion in its last funding round and has raised $6 billion in Series B funding.
