Elon Musk Gets Dinged By X After Threatening To Ban OpenAI Enabled Apple Products At Tesla, X & SpaceX; Scarlett Johansson Voice Dust-Up Cited
11.06.2024 - 00:47
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“Exactly”
That’s what Elon Musk replied today to a post on X that cast doubt on the integrity of OpenAI after their recent voiceover squabble with Scarlett Johansson. If that had been it, this would have been just another instance of the impulsive billionaire firing off again on the social media platform he’s owned since October 2022.
But, with Apple announcing Monday its dive into AI and a partnership with the once again Sam Altman-led organization that Musk co-founded (and in 2018 unsurprisingly fell out with), it was much more than that – at least for now.
In a series of posts, Musk declared that if the Tim Cook-run tech giant links arms with OpenAI then all their products will be “banned” from X, Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company and any other company Musk owns. Dramatically, he added that it would be “an unacceptable security violation” if “Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level”
Exactly! https://t.co/3tRVXFbQWG
The thing is Apple isn’t getting totally in bed with OpenAI, at least that’s not the way Cook and crew pitched it Monday. Apple has proved late comer to the full scope of Artificial Intelligence, ad today the CEO was clearly playing catch up. To that, Cook unveiled the sparkling Apple Intelligence as the A.I. clearing house for its devices and cloud services. Within that hierarchy, Apple is also bringing OpenAI and its ChatGPT into the fold with its operating systems.
Yes, for all the talk of privacy protections, the use of ChatGPT on Apple devices will shift over to OpenAI servers. However, with user and profile info kept hidden, the point of the partnership is essentially to answer the questions that Apple Intelligence can’t right now, Cook pledged.
A distinction may have been lost in Musk’s