"Apple Intelligence": Elon Musk threatens to ban iPhones from his companies
Apple is now also focusing on AI and wants to closely integrate various functions into iOS. An influential US billionaire has sharply criticized this.
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Shortly after announcing the integration of common AI functions into operating systems and close integration with Siri on iPhones, US billionaire Elon Musk threatened to ban cell phones from his companies. Musk is CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and the short messaging service X (formerly Twitter). On the latter, he described Apple's actions as an "unacceptable breach of security" and explained that iPhones would then have to be handed in at the entrances. However, while Musk apparently assumes that the AI company OpenAI will gain access to all iPhone content as part of the cooperation with Apple. However, it was repeatedly assured at the presentation that questions would be asked before data was transmitted and that many functions would be executed completely locally.
Apple announced "Apple Intelligence" on Monday evening at the start of this year's WWDC developer conference. Various AI models are to be used directly on the local device or extremely shielded in the cloud, for example to edit photos, rewrite email texts in a certain style or generate AI images for a presentation. Under certain circumstances, the technology should also be able to access existing data in order to take a context-based approach. It was repeatedly assured at the presentation that Apple would not have access to the data, but technical details on the implementation of this promise are still pending. However, Elon Musk at least has already formed his opinion.
In a series of short messages, Musk immediately criticized Apple's announcements. He personally called on Apple boss Tim Cook to stop the "creepy spyware". He also brusquely rejected explicit references to the fact that only data required for specific requests would be sent to OpenAI and ChatGPT after prior confirmation by the user and demanded that the application simply remain in an app. In the meantime, Musk, who also runs his own AI company xAI, has also claimed that his companies could be forced to develop their own smartphones with their AI technology. Neither Apple nor OpenAI have commented on Musk's criticism to Reuters.
(mho)