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Apple has limited staff access to the large language model (LLM) and other external artificial intelligence (AI) products in the same week that OpenAI introduced a ChatGPT app on iPhones.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the tech giant has sent an internal statement to its staff outlining a restriction on utilising generative AI tools due to concerns that business data may be exposed while developing its own equivalent software.
Apple joins a growing number of firms that have restricted employee access to ChatGPT and other AI platforms. So far, Amazon, Samsung, and JP Morgan Chase are among them.
According to the WSJ, "Apple is concerned that workers who use these types of programmes may leak confidential data."
Apple has also warned staff not to utilise Microsoft-owned GitHub's Copilot, which automates software development.
Concerns have been raised that when users use these models, the input data is captured by the corporations behind them, ostensibly to constantly enhance the product's offering.
While data collecting is a recurring concern on the Internet, it is particularly frightening when it is in the hands of AI that appears to think for itself.
According to the WSJ, Apple has lately purchased numerous AI start-ups in its efforts to establish a ChatGPT competitor platform.
"Apple was an early entrant into the consumer application of artificial intelligence when it launched the Siri voice assistant in 2011," according to the Journal. However, in succeeding years, the firm lagged behind competitors such as Amazon's Alexa."
While the AI competition between some of the world's top names in tech heats up, the pressure is on to create the next best tool to compete with OpenAI's innovative offering.