ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac

[MacRumors]

OpenAI today said there's a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT on Mac to search messages, draft messages, analyze conversations, and send replies to people.

The Apple Messages plugin can be installed from the ChatGPT Plugins interface, and it is listed under Public. OpenAI suggests users try these prompts:

• Check my calendar and reply to [name] with a few times I'm free for dinner next week
• Suggest follow ups from yesterday in messages
• Find birthdays in @messages and add them to my calendar
• Find potential spam messages I can delete

ChatGPT can access iMessages, SMS messages, and RCS messages. Sending a message requires user approval by default, and OpenAI warns against granting persistent approval. For the Messages integration to work, ChatGPT needs Full Disk Access in System Settings, as well as access to contact names and automation tools.

Apple's involvement in the plugin's development is unknown, but it uses AppleScript and Accessibility settings to function on a Mac. Apple and OpenAI are currently facing off in court after Apple sued OpenAI over theft of trade secrets.

Messages integration is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex in the desktop version of ChatGPT, but it does not work in regular ChatGPT chats. It is available for all ChatGPT users who have an Apple silicon Mac.

Article Link: ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac

 

[MacUserFella]

Oh boy! More data to give to the evil AI corporation!

 

[kwl]

Yeah that’s gonna be a no for me dawg

 

[Vincent Hanna]

For the Messages integration to work, ChatGPT needs Full Disk Access in System Settings, as well as access to contact names and automation tools.

That’s a hard no.

 

[jz0309]

Falls in the same category as the recent Meta AI app for Mac: hell no

 

[Minato1990]

Lol hell no Scam buttman

 

[stiligFox]

ah haha


no

 

[TJFDenver]

Hard pass

 

[brock2621]

No

 

[code-m]

Nothing can possibly go wrong with this. AI for Messages sends a message or more that could be breaking the law but hey you will still be charged as the AI Chatbot is representing you.

 

[SamuelW]

Requires full access to contacts. No thanks. Yet what if a recepient of a message I send is using it. Then my message gets sucked up ? Can a sender opt out of a receiver using it ? Ugh

 

[expensiveram]

Siri’s local model will do that anyway.

 

[london_apple]

Yeppppp that’s a no for me

 

[expensiveram]

Nothing can possibly go wrong with this. AI for Messages sends a message or more that could be breaking the law but hey you will still be charged as the AI Chatbot is representing you.

Doubt it will actually press the Send button and the legal liability would be on them if it goes wrong. Not you.

 

[zilchfox]

Absolutely not.

 

[eyeseeyou]

I already share a lot of info with ChatGPT but considering the news about OpenAI’s practices of gathering Apple secrets I’ll pass on this.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Now you won’t know if you talk to your friends or you talk to ChatGPT lol

Seriously I see some potential for automatic responses for businesses !

 

[McWetty]

Who thought this was a good idea?

At least it’s not Grok sending CSAM to everyone on your behalf.

 

[paulvee]

Any privacy safeguards? If a friend of mine uses this and signs off on the boilerplate consent forms, this means that MY side of the conversations can be analyzed? All roads lead to me retreating from digital communications.

 

[iZac]

How is it that we nearly all see this "AI" infection as a bad thing yet it's happening regardless?

Are we all just in an echo chamber that sees these developments as dangerous and a horrible invasion of privacy? Does everyone else love it? Am I going mad?

 

[hieranonymous]

Of all the no-thank-you’s, no thank you to this the most.

 

[ClaraStahlbaum]

Not letting ChatGPT have access to my imessages.

 

[mwhite]

Who the hell would install this? NO.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Who the hell would install this? NO.

Businesses ! To auto-reply !

 

[Happy_John]

Why the hell would you want ChatGPT to draft and send messages? They're just short messages. Write or speak them, and then send them.

If you're not prepared to expend the amount of effort needed to send a message or reply to a message, just don't reply or send a message.

If you don't think the recipient is deserving of your time and effort, why add insult to injury with some AI slop?