Apple Health Integration Seemingly Coming to ChatGPT

[ProbablyDylan]

Call me paranoid.
But why exactly would I want this rubbish, especially we just had another article the other day?

ChatGPT is Going to Start Showing You Ads

OpenAI appears to be gearing up to introduce ads in ChatGPT, presumably for users who don't pay to access the chatbot. Engineer Tibor Blaho recently found references to upcoming ad functionality in the ChatGPT Android app. Code strings mention search ads, a search ad carousel, and an ad API.

www.macrumors.com

What? You don't want an unknowing, unthinking, unfeeling word-generator to tell you to consider losing weight with the sponsor of this chat, Wegovy by Novo Nordisk?

 

[dustin_]

handing your personal health data over to a data collection company is a choice. one that i’ll be doing everything i can to avoid!

 

[WU27f1xcCs]

This is what I have wanted since becoming a daily user so bad. This would help my fitness and nutrition journey immensely.

 

[seanmcbay]

You are a fool that deserves what happens to them if you willingly give OpenAI your biometric data.

 

[bluecoast]

I hate to be a broken record here but people apparently aren't reading the replies.

It is optional. You'd have to complete multiple steps to opt-in to this service. If you don't want it, don't spend time signing up for it.

Just imagining where we might all be in 2030

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

You’re right they should spend $100b developing ANOTHER chatbot. Thats a great use of their cash on hand. 🙄

Be more useful than juicing the stock price with buybacks tbh.

 

[coolfactor]

Another case of Apple relying on someone else for AI

This is a blatant disregard of what AI truly is. Apple has been a pioneer in Machine Learning (ML) technology in consumer products for decades, long before ChatGPT took the world by storm.

The only segment where Apple has lagged behind — and for good reason — has been this new "Generative AI" segment of the much larger field of AI/ML.

It was Apple's own vision from back in the 90's — Knowledge Navigator — that the industry is racing to implement.

Had OpenAI not released ChatGPT yet, would Apple still be "behind"? We should appreciate that Apple is not wanting to release something until it's truly ready for mass adoption. We've all been witness to the embarrassing missteps that have taken place over the past 2 years.

As for Apple Health integration with ChatGPT... that strikes me as an odd development. Unless the data is sent completely anonymously, or to private servers managed by Apple, I don't see this happening.

 

[mansplains]

The trick is to give false data like a daily intake of 12000 calories of your fast food of choice. See what plans it comes up with then. On a separate note, I can’t get AI to suggest sauces for human flesh, only cares about ethics when its not under scrutiny smh

 

[KurtWilde]

But that is optional, big difference, also the only things that share the data are the devices recording it like water bottles. But different to an open source Ai isn’t it…………….

There is no difference.

 

[9Jooey]

I'm currently using both ChatGPT and Gemini, along with doing extra research, to help with my diet, supplements, and weight training. Specifically, I'm getting advice on when to take supplements and how far apart to take them from other things. It's been working really well! My blood test results from last month showed significant improvement; before, many levels were high/risky, but now everything is within the normal range.

 

[370zulu]

Would be nice to have GDPR like federal law in the US that would allow US citizens to opt out any or all of their PII from AI training.

Some of us don’t want any part of this nonsense. Not just this Apple Health integration.

 

[svish]

Don't know how useful it will be. I think it might come as a part of iOS 27 and we will hear about it at WWDC 2026.

 

[xSushi]

 

[Pezimak]

This is what I have wanted since becoming a daily user so bad. This would help my fitness and nutrition journey immensely.

How? Instead of using a personal trainer, human being, you want to rely on a machine to tell you what to do?

 

[dannys1]

You are a fool that deserves what happens to them if you willingly give OpenAI your biometric data.

Steady - the stuff in the Health App is far from "biometric data" I think you might want to learn what that term means.

 

[jlc1978]

You’re right they should spend $100b developing ANOTHER chatbot. Thats a great use of their cash on hand. 🙄

Apple's differentiator could be on machine AI that maintains user privacy. It could even connect to a remote AI server to get very specific data and load on the phone, tablet or Mac without revealing the user or their data. The actual analysis is done on the user's machine, and the cloud used only to get relevant data to support answering the user's query. The remote machine would know information was requested on a specific topic, but nothing else. If the user's queries are around a similar topic, then the on machine AI would get better and need to do less remote querying.

 

[AnTaR3s]

Sorry but eff that!!! No Mac app in years over security concerns (?) and now a hallucinating AI bot should get access to my health data!

I have been a happy Apple customer for 20 years, but with their recent moves they made some really weird choices.

 

[KurtWilde]

Sorry but eff that!!! No Mac app in years over security concerns (?) and now a hallucinating AI bot should get access to my health data!

I have been a happy Apple customer for 20 years, but with their recent moves they made some really weird choices.

This is not Apple, this is ChatGPT using the same feature any app can to have the data shared.

 

[WU27f1xcCs]

How? Instead of using a personal trainer, human being, you want to rely on a machine to tell you what to do?

Yes. I can’t afford a personal trainer

 

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

Sorry but eff that!!! No Mac app in years over security concerns (?) and now a hallucinating AI bot should get access to my health data!

I have been a happy Apple customer for 20 years, but with their recent moves they made some really weird choices.

So don't sign up for it, pretty simple.