United Kingdom, June 12 -- Apple has confirmed Siri will never be your girlfriend.

Craig Federighi, who serves as the tech giant's software engineering chief, has insisted the company's chatbot takes a deliberately different approach to those made by the likes of OpenAI and Google.

Without naming names, he told Mostly Human: "As you may know, if you use many of the existing chatbots, they're really focused on engagement to a large degree.

"And sycophancy, right? They kind of want to pull you in.

"They might encourage you to reveal things about yourself, and then use that as a basis to establish a connection."

Apple has made sure Siri is there for a purpose, but is "not into" taking things further.

He explained: "We view it quite the...