🛠️ChatGPT Plug-In Now Reads and Sends Your Apple Messages
TL;DR
OpenAI shipped an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT sort, search, draft, send and delete texts on your behalf. It also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work, and OpenAI says it runs locally without indexing your message history.
OpenAI shipped an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT sort, search, draft, send and delete texts on your behalf. It also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work, and OpenAI says it runs locally without indexing your message history.
Key Points
Demo shows ChatGPT proposing follow-up replies based on the prior day's incoming messages
Supported actions include deleting messages and searching deep message history
OpenAI told Bloomberg the plug-in runs on the user's machine and builds no message index
OpenAI explicitly discourages persistent approval, warning it removes the last review step before a text sends as you
Available to ChatGPT, Codex and ChatGPT Work users
Why It Matters
Granting an agent send-and-delete rights on your primary personal channel is a bigger trust step than any coding tool, and the safeguard OpenAI ships is a checkbox you can turn off.
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Why does this matter?
Granting an agent send-and-delete rights on your primary personal channel is a bigger trust step than any coding tool, and the safeguard OpenAI ships is a checkbox you can turn off.
What happened?
OpenAI shipped an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT sort, search, draft, send and delete texts on your behalf. It also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work, and OpenAI says it runs locally without indexing your message history.
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