ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
OpenAI has introduced a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, enabling users to connect their Messages inbox with the chatbot. This development allows users to sort, analyze, or edit their messages directly from ChatGPT, and it also extends its functionality to Codex and ChatGPT Work, making it useful for professional use. The promotional material for the plugin demonstrates a user requesting the AI to craft follow-up messages to their contacts based on messages received the previous day.
Additionally, the plugin can delete messages, draft and send messages on behalf of the user, or search for information within the user's message history. While most AI-related features raise privacy concerns, OpenAI assures that this plugin runs locally on the user's machine and does not create an index of all messages. However, details about the specifics of this claim remain unclear.
OpenAI advises users to monitor ChatGPT's actions and discourages enabling persistent approval, warning that this option "removes your final chance to review a message before ChatGPT sends it as you."
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