Musk said if OpenAI is included into Apple’s operating system, he would outlaw the company’s products

Billionaire Elon Musk threatened to remove Apple products from his businesses if the company included OpenAI into the operating system.

“That’s an unacceptable security breach,” Musk, CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla, rocket maker SpaceX and owner of social networking company X, said in a post on that platform.

“And visitors will have to leave their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage,” he said.

Earlier in the day, Apple revealed a variety of AI capabilities in its OS systems and applications as part of an alliance with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT technology into its products.

Apple claimed to have designed AI with privacy «at the core» and to enable those capabilities with a mix of cloud computing and on-device processing.

Ben Bajarin, managing director of consultancy Creative Strategies, stated that it was improbable that anybody would take Musk’s lead and that Apple was attempting to inform users that storing data on a device was not more safe than the private cloud.

«Apple is now attempting to expand on the story by stating that the same anonymized user data is similarly taken and firewalled when it moves to the secure private cloud. He remarked, «Apple never really sees that.»

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 using AI to build technology for non-profit purposes for the good of mankind.

It also created xAI, a company, to take on OpenAI and create a rival to ChatGPT, the widely used chatbot.

In its most recent investment round, xAI secured $6 billion in Series B capital, valued at a total of $24 billion.