After months of recriminations and accusations Elon Musk passes to the facts and suits Apple and Openai, complaining about a restrictive understanding of the competition, for the question of the integration of chatgpt on the iPhones. An expected development, since the owner of Tesla and X for some time denounced an injustice on social media against the competition and had also accused Apple of manipulating the Apple Store to keep chatgpt preferences at the top.
Musk’s accusations
Elon Musk, through X Corp and Xai, has formally denounced Apple and Openai, who are accused of having made a restrictive understanding of competition and having created a monopoly in the artificial intelligence sector.
The problem arises from the fact that Cahgpt has been integrated directly into the iPhones, as part of a series of services offered with the iPhones that are part of the Apple Intelligence suite. According to Musk’s accusations, the fact that chatgpt has been pre-installed on the iPhone, in fact disincentive the user to download other competing chatbots, including Grok, the generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Xai and launched at the end of 2023.
In addition to constituting an advantage for Apple’s iPhone, which would market its iPhones with one of the most powerful artificial intelligence tools already integrated, the understanding would benefit chatgpt, to which Apple would have offered privileged access to thousands of information from its users, in order to enrich its power compared to competitors.
The accusations of manipulation
The accusation of manipulation of the rankings in the Apple Store has filled the social chronicles in the last period, with Musk who complained of the obstinate presence of chatgpt at the top despite the excellent positioning in the Grok and X applings. For Musk, Apple makes “impossible to any other to reach the first position”.
“In a desperate attempt to protect his monopoly on smartphones, Apple has united forces with the company that draws greater advantages from the inhibition of competition and innovation in artificial intelligence: Openii, a single -lineist in the market of generative artificial intelligence chatbots”, reads the complaint presented at the Texas district court
The replica of Openai and Apple
The replica Die Diretti concerned did not expect. Apple responded to the accusation of manipulation by specifying that the App Store is “designed to be fair and impartial”, while the spokesman for Openii, Kayla Wood, labeled the cause intended by Musk as “the umpteenth episode of harassment by Musk”, which was also among the founding fathers of Openai together with Sam Altman, with whom he had disagreed in the management of the company.
And Sam Altman commented on Musk’s complaints, replicating “a remarkable affirmation considering what Elon does to manipulate x to his advantage and for his companies, damaging the competitors and people he doesn’t like”.
