From the “what drugs is this guy smoking” department comes a tweet storm from Elon Musk in regards to Apple integrating OpenAI’s Chat GPT 4 into their operating systems that are due to be released this fall. The TL:DR is that he’s so upset by this that he’s threatening to ban iPhones and other Apple devices from his companies:
Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts on X, the Tesla, SpaceX and xAI exec wrote that “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” Apple devices would be banned from his businesses and visitors would have to check their Apple devices at the door where they’ll be “stored in a Faraday cage.”
His posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI or at least attempt to leave room for doubt about user privacy. While Apple and OpenAI both said that users are asked before “any questions are sent to ChatGPT,” along with any documents or photos, Musk’s responses indicate he believes OpenAI is deeply integrated into Apple’s operating system itself and therefore able to hoover up any personal and private data.
In iOS 18, Apple said people will be able to ask Siri questions, and if the assistant thinks ChatGPT can help, it will ask permission to share the question and present the answer directly. This allows users to get an answer from ChatGPT without having to open the ChatGPT iOS app. Photos, PDFs or other documents you want to send to ChatGPT get the same treatment.
Musk, however, would prefer that OpenAI’s capabilities remain bound to a dedicated app — not a Siri integration.
Responding to VC and CTO Sam Pullara at Sutter Hill Ventures who wrote that the user is approving a specific request on a per-request basis — OpenAI does not have access to the device — Musk wrote, “Then leave it as an app. This is bullshit.”
Pullara had said that the way ChatGPT was integrated was essentially the same way the ChatGPT app works today. The on-device AI models are either Apple’s own or those using Apple’s Private Cloud.
Meanwhile, replying to a post on X from YouTuber Marques Brownlee that further explained Apple Intelligence, Musk responded, “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!”
He even replied to a post by Apple CEO Tim Cook, wherein he threatened to ban Apple devices from the premises of his companies if he didn’t “stop this creepy spyware.”
“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!” Musk exclaimed in one of many posts about the new integrations. “Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river,” he said. While it’s true that Apple may not know the inner workings of OpenAI, it’s not technically Apple handing over the data — the user is making that choice, from the sound of things.
I have a feeling that this is all a smokescreen for the fact that Apple is working with OpenAI and not with him and his Grok AI. I say that because Apple during the WWDC keynote where this was announced did say that it was open to integrating other AI’s, and that OpenAI was the first one. And I am going to guess that his AI isn’t on Apple list. So he’s having a tantrum and throwing his toys out of the stroller like a two year old. Which is typical for Elon as he seems to have the emotional maturity of a two year old. My advice is to completely ignore Elon as clearly he’s lost the plot here.
Today Is Patch Tuesday…. It’s Patching Time!
Posted in Commentary with tags Microsoft on June 11, 2024 by itnerdToday is “Patch Tuesday” and Neowin and Bleeping Computer have the list of fixes that are included for these patches for Windows 11 and 10. Those articles are worth a read.
Tom Marsland, VP of Technology, Cloud Range, and Board Chairman of VetSec had these comments:
“Today’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft fixes a publicly disclosed zero-day, a design issue in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) that could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service attack in vulnerable DNS resolvers. According to researchers that found the vulnerability (which had been present in DNSSEC for the better part of two decades), an attacker “could completely disable large parts of the worldwide Internet.”
This patch Tuesday fixed quite a few remote code execution vulnerabilities, however, the vulnerabilities do require local access to the vulnerabilities in question. These attacks could’ve taken the form of tricking users into opening malicious documents, or other forms of social engineering to exploit these systems and applications, which includes SharePoint, Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Outlook.
While most of these items patched are not seeing exploits in the wild, it is important for system administrators and security personnel to make a judicious effort to patch systems as soon as possible after this release.”
I would encourage you to read those so that you can see what’s been fixed and deploy these fixes when you can. Because installing these patches are an easy way to keep yourself secure.
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