Elon Musk frowns at Apple and ChatGPT creator, OpenAI partnership

Tech billionaire, Elon Musk, said he may ban Apple products from being used at his companies, if the tech giant included OpenAI into the operating system.

In a post published on his verified X handle, the Tesla CEO said he ban Apple devices at his companies, including SpaceX and X.

He insisted that if Apple “integrates OpenAI at the (operating system) level,” it would constitute “an unacceptable security violation,” adding, visitors “will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,”

Indeed, the cage is designed to restrict electromagnetic waves essential for communication, such as Bluetooth, cellphones, and wireless internet signals.

Indications are that although Musk thinks OpenAI is firmly ingrained in Apple’s operating system and may thus sift through any personal and private data, although both Apple and OpenAI have stated that customers are consulted before “any questions are sent to ChatGPT,” along with any documents or photographs.

Musk said it was “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!”

Apple claimed that privacy is a core tenet of its AI innovations and that user data is protected by a combination of cloud computing and on-device processing. Musk’s doubt was evident despite these promises.

Early in March, Musk filed a lawsuit against Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015, alleging that they had abandoned the company’s initial goal of developing AI for the good of humanity rather than for financial gain.

To compete with OpenAI and create a substitute for the well-known chatbotChatGPT, he also started his own company, xAI.
We earlier reported that with $6 billion in series B capital secured during its most recent funding round, xAI was valued at $24 billion.