OpenAI’s new iMessage integration is a massive time-saver for personal use, but granting the AI access to your contacts and data could be a nightmare for company security.
OpenAI keeps building on the capabilities of ChatGPT with the goal of making it a kind of “everything” app, and while some tweaks bring fascinating new tools to users, others bring novel security and privacy concerns. One new ChatGPT innovation falls in the latter category, since it may trigger business owners’ worries about data leaking out: ChatGPT can now control Apple’s Messages texting system on Macs.
OpenAI announced the feature in an X post that suggests that “Everyday conversations just got easier” thanks to the new plugin power, which lets you “Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies” using ChatGPT on Mac computers.
An accompanying video clip includes a handy example, where a user asks the chatbot to suggest if there are to-do items they need to catch up on from Messages. The AI works for a brief while, then reports it found an upcoming social event and even automatically drafts a suitable reply. The user then tweaks the reply, and clicks a “continue” button which commands the app to send the text via Messages just as if it were any normal human-crafted SMS. OpenAI also suggests other uses like “Check my calendar and reply to [name] with a few times I’m free for dinner next week,” and “Find birthdays in @ messages and add them to my calendar.”
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