That's quite a move of the goalpost.

The original comment refered to Google Search.

Apple employees most likely aren't allowed to use Gmail, Google slides, ... for work, but are supposed to be using iMail, keynote etc.

Been a while since I was at Apple. But we never used Google services and any third party tools we did use were vetted by a cross functional team from Security, Data Governance etc.

This idea that they would just allow sensitive data to be given to competitors in an unmanaged way is ridiculous. That sort of thing doesn't happen at any enterprise company let alone one of the most secretive in the industry.

No, not, if you can't change the users.

For Apple it's a risk management problem.

Hence why they are banning it.

For policy setting that's the wrong question. The real ones are: how likely is it to happen, how much would training/comms change that, and how acceptable is that risk. Their answers seem to have been: very, not enough, it's not.

Where the problem is and how to change it is an interesting topic, but likely irrelevant for the decision.

If apple hosts it's one chatgpt internally it is neither.