Elon Musk has thrown a tamper tantrum over Apple’s integration of OpenAI, and the episode exposes the problem with his social media addiction.
Earlier this week, Apple announced its latest suite of software, including its new Apple Intelligence product, which integrates large language models (LLMs) into its products.
This includes using OpenAI’s ChatGPT as an LLM option when asking questions to the new Siri.
Musk, who is not a fan of OpenAI, freaked out.
The Tesla CEO sent a series of tweets attacking Apple over the move, going as far as calling ChatGPT “spyware” and saying that he would ban “Apple products at his companies.”
Some of Musk’s tweets on the matter were community-noted for being misleading, like claiming that Apple can’t make their own AI and that ChatGPT is being integrated at the operating system level:
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