ChatGPT Can Take Over Your iMessages. But Do You Really Want That?
OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that could set off privacy alarms for Apple users. The AI chatbot can now scan through your iMessages if you allow it to. It can also read, write and send texts on your behalf, OpenAI announced in a post on X.
Apple’s iMessage is the native messaging service for iPhones and other Apple devices. The new feature, called Apple Messages Plugin, is currently available only to users of ChatGPT Work and Codex on Mac desktops, not on mobile devices. You can choose whether to add the plugin, but you’ll have to go through several permission procedures before it’s active.
OpenAI said ChatGPT won’t store your messages and that the plugin will run only on your local Mac computer, not on OpenAI’s cloud servers, as reported by Bloomberg. But despite such assertions, the new feature could be troubling for Apple,...
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