ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac

[jchap]

Isn’t this basically what Siri on macOS 27 (currently beta) can do anyway? It seems better to use a local LLM designed by Apple for on-device use to do this, rather than sending your entire Messages dataset to a third-party cloud server like OpenAI.

How useful could this really be, anyway? The examples given look pretty lame.

 

[turbineseaplane]

The best part about this news is how many people are outright saying "no" in the thread here.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

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

I, um, don't think that's true?

 

[Macalway]

Seems kind of useless.

But it may be useful for messaging certain entities. Another tool.

It don't think: "IT'S THE DEVIL'S WORK!", particularly, but I can't be sure.

 

[acconda81]

No, no, no, no, just no. Not a chance

 

[jonnysods]

I just saw an article on MR that said apppe will label music generated by AI.

My request for the messages integration is that it would tell me if the sender was using the ChatGPT plugin to send messages, then I’ll never text them again.

 

[neptuna]

Read and send whose messages? Not mine! Nope! 🙂‍↔️

 

[stars_fan]

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

hopefully you don't use google crap if you don't like giving data to evil companies

 

[Viridian5]

That’s a hard no.

You said it!

 

[turbineseaplane]

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?

The tech investor class has pushed ALL the chips into the center on AI.

They are going to try to jam it down our throats everywhere and anywhere they can.

 

[code-m]

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

Claims it’s a bug or read the ToS, it will be the end users responsibility if the bug or it send it automatically, not OpenAI. Use at your own risk.

 

[code-m]

The tech investor class has pushed ALL the chips into the center on AI.

They are going to try to jam it down our throats everywhere and anywhere they can.

Dirk Diggler eat your heart out. 😅

 

[OldNewMBP]

NOPE, THANK YOU, CREATORS OF CHATGPT. YOU AIN'T READING MY MESSAGES (Unless it is for legal reasons, of course)! Removing ChatGPT from the settings first things first!

 

[Black_Mage]

Not only will I never put this garbage on my Mac, I also don't want to communicate with anyone who has given A.I. permission to read their texts. Holy **** A.I. is going to turn me into a luddite!

 

[boswald]

I used to use ChatGPT for fun and generally enjoyed it, but it seems like they get more and more shady everyday. I'm sure they have a database on me by now (as does Google), and there's nothing I can do about it. But I'll make damn sure I don't use it in the future.

 

[neverknew]

Not saying I would ever use this, but all I can say is the voice recognition and overall logic understanding from these AIs are so much better than what Apple has come up with (Siri). Apple has all the money and resources in the world to build an LLM but they won’t and it’s kind of insane.

All my Siri queries nowadays just ask me if I want to ask ChatGPT and for some reason it even fails at passing on the query to ChatGPT leading me to go directly to the app.

I’m not on the ios 27 beta so I don’t know the improvements there.

 

[ThomasJL]

Requires full access to contacts.

That is frightening. There's no way I'd ever allow any Silicon Valley corporation to have access to my contacts list, let alone one run by Scam Altman.

 

[nostaws]

I'm not using this for a variety of reasons. But I can see how a small company with limited resources could set up a pretty useful text help line using ChatGPT and their mac to service their customers.

 

[HVDynamo]

No Thanks. ChatGPT can just stay away from all my stuff.

 

[minik]

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

Just like years ago, what if my friends allow social media apps to upload their address book (with my info already on it).

It’s over!

 

[Ax1sNXS]

ummm NAAAAH!

 

[iGeek2019]

Another one for the “thanks, but no thanks” brigade – it’s bad enough I missed a call the other day and when it went to Voicemail the ‘person’ couldn’t have sounded more AI if they’d tried 🥱

 

[Genelec8341]

Girl Scouts are offering their cookies at your local supermarket without seed oils if you accept the TOA.

No, they are not. Sadly my post is false.

 

[FasterQuieter]

Finally, my mother will no longer be ignored! On another note, that ingrate son of mine better not install it.

 

[obviouslogic]

Not saying I would ever use this, but all I can say is the voice recognition and overall logic understanding from these AIs are so much better than what Apple has come up with (Siri). Apple has all the money and resources in the world to build an LLM but they won’t and it’s kind of insane.

All my Siri queries nowadays just ask me if I want to ask ChatGPT and for some reason it even fails at passing on the query to ChatGPT leading me to go directly to the app.

I’m not on the ios 27 beta so I don’t know the improvements there.

There’s a really good reason Apple hasn’t invested in a frontier model… they have no intention of making AI a service, other than to their own customers. All the other “frontier shops” are spending 100’s of billions making an AI product they hope to sell to AI customers. Apple licensed Google’s frontier model and have built their own foundation models from it for a measly billion a year (plus data center space to run their “cloud pro” model).

I’ve never used any other AI chat bot, so I have nothing to compare Siri AI to, but I’ve been using the OS’27 betas, and Siri is quite impressive. It’s been able to handle just about everything I’ve asked it to and it’s great it gives the sources of the answer it provides. The “personal” context stuff is almost mind blowing.