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Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform on Monday to express his complaints about the recent integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Apple iOS, specifically mentioning that he regarded the machine learning system as “creepy spyware.” During Fortune’s MPW dinner on Tuesday evening, OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati refuted Musk’s allegations.
“That’s his opinion. Obviously, I don’t think so,” she told the audience. “We are extremely concerned about the privacy of our users and the safety of our products.”
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The source of this spat stems from Apple’s new partnership with the creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI, which was announced during WWDC 2024 on Monday. This partnership will see ChatGPT integrated into Siri, handling user queries that exceed the capabilities of Apple’s on-board AI. In essence, the Siri integration functions as an API call, as software developer Dylan McDonald observed, stating that “it’s basically the same as using the ChatGPT app.”
OpenAI’s technology will need to be integrated into iOS so that it can be utilized with a variety of Apple services, according to Fortune reports. However, Apple made it clear during Monday’s announcement that it will not share user data with OpenAI, nor will OpenAI train its models using Apple’s user data. This AI differs from Apple Intelligence, which also debuted on Monday. Apple Intelligence operates its own models and functions on a secure, private compute cloud that is separate from the public cloud used by OpenAI.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI but later left the company to establish rival xAI, even threatened to prohibit employees at all of his companies from using Apple products in their work, including iPhones and Macs, in response to the partnership announcement. “Apple has no idea what’s truly happening once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re betraying you,” Musk wrote on X.
“We are striving to be as transparent as possible with the public,” Murati said on Tuesday. “The greatest risk is that stakeholders misunderstand the technology.”