apple He is said to oppose Europe’s efforts to demand this Google To help its AI competitors access its services.
As Reuters I mentioned Wednesday (May 13) European Commission The EC is seeking comments on actions taken to help Google comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The European Commission said earlier this year that it planned to take a closer look at whether Google Artificial intelligence features It was compatible with the legislation.
“AI tools are changing the way we seek information online, receive it on our smartphones, and even how we interact with our devices.” Teresa RiberaThe European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for a clean, fair and competitive transition said at the time. “This creates new opportunities. We want to maximize the potential and benefits of this profound technological transformation by ensuring that the playing field is open and fair, and not skewed in favor of the greater few.”
Google said these proposed measures – which would allow competing AI services to interact with Google apps to do things like send emails or order food – would interfere with important privacy and security protections for users in Europe.
Apple said in its report to the European Commission that it has a vested interest in this issue, given its own interests Operating system The Reuters report added that this highlights the larger implications of how platforms handle third-party access to artificial intelligence.
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Apple said in its report, according to Reuters, that the proposed measures “raise urgent and serious concerns. If confirmed, they will create profound risks to user privacy, security and safety as well as device safety and performance.”
“These risks are particularly acute in the context of rapidly evolving AI systems whose capabilities, behaviors, and threat vectors remain unpredictable, as we are now seeing time and time again,” the company added.
According to Reuters, Apple also questioned the European Commission’s technical expertise and its goal in what it described as “redesigning” the operating system.
Apple said: “It is replacing the judgments made by Google engineers with its own judgments based on less than three months of work.” “It is all the more dangerous given that the only discernible value of the direct messages guiding this work appears to be open and unrestricted access.”
