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Apple some big product announcements Monday, at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, however one is raising privacy and security concerns among critics including Tesla and X, chief Elon Musk: Apple Intelligence, the company’s new personal AI system “that puts powerful generative models right at the core of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac,” enabling a ton of new capabilities across native apps, such as the ability to generate images or summarize text.
Apple Intelligence -- which will be available on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPads and Macs with an M1 chip and later -- will automatically utilize on-device processing or Apple’s private cloud computing server.
The upgraded voice assistant Siri, with ChatGPT chatbot integration, will now be integrated more deeply into the iPhone, appearing as a pulsating light on the edge of your device. Siri will automatically determine whether your query would be better suited for ChatGPT. You’ll basically be able to use the OpenAI chatbot through Siri for free and without an account.
"We’re partnering with Apple to integrate ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS—coming later this year," OpenAI wrote on X.
The announcements drew swift reactions on X from privacy and security experts who are concerned about the level of access to personal data that ChatGPT will have on users' devices.
In a series of posts on his social media platform X, Musk slammed the OpenAI-Apple collaboration.
"If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation," he wrote. "And visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage."
Replying to Apple chief Tim Cook's post about the OpenAI collaboration, Musk wrote: "Don’t want it. Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies."
In other posts, the Tesla chief wrote: "It’s 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 has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river. Apple using the words 'protect your privacy' while handing your data over to a third-party AI that they don’t understand and can’t themselves create is *not* protecting privacy at all!"
Responding to a post by Mike Benz, an ex-US state department official who wrote "give me a Grok phone with Grok integrated," Musk replies, "If Apple actually integrates woke nanny AI spyware into their OS, we might need to do that!"
Other announcements, many of which were ridiculed on social media by Android phone users, include home screen customization, RCS support, iMessage upgrade; and a macOS update which will let you mirror - and interact with - your iPhone on a Mac device.
Apple also announced a first major update for its mixed reality headset's operating system VisionOS 2. The Cupertino-based smartphone giant plans to bring Vision Pro to more countries, including China, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and the UK.
WATCH highlights of Apple's WWDC 2024