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Musk warns that he will ban Apple devices if OpenAI is integrated at OS level

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I'll note that he is not going to ban them from his platforms.

A manufacturer being able to gatekeep what kinds of infotainment systems I can use and which ones I can't isn't dystopian at all

Apple have built a business model around that since iTunes.

Not that I disagree with it being dystopian. And then there's hardware encoding of codecs. In the end, this all stops with Apple and Microsoft.

If Apple can convince people that this isn't an open channel to their data by OpenAI, then this is a nothing burger. If not there will be a lot of companies rethinking Apple.

Remember that classic Apple commercial from 1983?

  And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'.

So true. It took another forty years.

> If Apple can convince people that this isn't an open channel to their data by OpenAI, then this is a nothing burger. If not there will be a lot of companies rethinking Apple.

I completely disagree. Most companies so far have shown no serious concern about sending data to OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft via LLM services.

You could argue that a vanilla Android device sends as much data to Google as an Apple device could ever send to OpenAI.

I code for the publishing industry. We're hearing from our customers that they care a lot about being scraped by LLMs and they're pressing us for defenses. Business models are being reshaped.

That is a small and extremely specific industry. It is not the norm. Most people don't have customers who are existentially terrified over AI replacing them.

This is Chuck Norris vs an immobile object.

if so, we've never been this close to another year of "linux on the desktop".

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