Apple sued by Baidu over fake Ernie AI apps on App Store
Chinese tech giant Baidu has sued Apple and a number of app developers over fake versions of its AI chatbot that have appeared in the App Store.
Baidu unveiled its own version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbots in March, but unlike its competitors, Ernie, as it’s called, is not yet widely available for public use. Instead, anyone interested in taking Ernie for a spin have to apply to Baidu for a special code and then wait to see if they get selected.
After discovering several bogus apps in…