ChatGPT for Mac Can Now Read Your Apple Notes – Here's How

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Does anyone other than Apple think this is a good idea?

If Apple thinks anything is a good idea, legions of "Apple is always right" fans think so too. I think it's in the rules.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Dang, who knew The Great Filter was going to be so lame?

 

[John_Blackthorne]

Terminal and text edit are my only options. Notes is not one. :-(

 

[TonyC28]

I won’t be turning this on and I really can’t think of a good use case for it. Also, why does it feel like Apple is shrugging and admitting Siri is garbage and they are just handing the keys to ChatGPT?

 

[John_Blackthorne]

I won’t be turning this on and I really can’t think of a good use case for it. Also, why does it feel like Apple is shrugging and admitting Siri is garbage and they are just handing the keys to ChatGPT?

Easy. So when something goes wrong, or the answers are bad, they will just point the finger at ChatGPT.

I don't think Apple wanted anything to do with this AI stuff, but market forces that pushed them into it.

This way, they get the "gold standard" of AI in their phones and they can disavow it when it screws up.

Best of both worlds.

 

[EdwardC]

Hard pass.

 

[iMac The Knife]

I'm sure it can read all your other data as well. Hard pass.

 

[dmr727]

I remember being able to have my 660av read a TeachText document. That 55 MHz DSP was pretty cool.

Glad to see Apple is still pushing boundaries!

 

[thefredelement]

This is how they're all going to work, on Windows they take screenshots of your whole desktop at least on Apple they let you pick what window to capture. Interesting times.

 

[Treq]

Not available in the EU. Of course.

Lucky you.

 

[HenrikWivel]

Reminds me of the time when MacOS integrated with Facebook.

 

[nnoble]

Easy solution for anyone not ready for AI: Apple Intelligence is not available when Siri is set to English (India).

 

[JtheLemur]

This would be neat for some cases if it weren't for my opinion that ChatGPT is really really poor compared to both Claude Sonnet 3.5 and even more so with Claude via the API (e.g. when using a tool like Raycast) -__-

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Reminds me of the time when MacOS integrated with Facebook.

I don't Facebook remember integration with Facebook in macOS/OSX . I do remember it with iOS, though.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Ask Sarah Connor if this is a good idea.

 

[SamRyouji]

No thanks. My notes are too hot & spicy 🔥 for its safety guards, it might get shocked and go into cardiac arrest lol.

 

[switz]

Note that you can turn off Siri access when the screen is locked in MacOS "Apple Intelligence & Siri" so it is not listening (maybe). We have no way to verify the "OFF" switches actually work.

 

[txscott]

Nope. Just Nope.

 

[Applfan81]

Yeah hell no! My stuff is my stuff, and nothing anyone else is given access to!

 

[letsrollmonami]

I get the concern, but millions of people are already sharing their personal life with ChatGPT. And for this integration with Apple, you actually need to have a ChatGPT account and actually need to enable it. It's not like ChatGPT is going to get access to your data without those criteria being true...at least I hope it doesn't.

 

[gleepskip]

It's not like ChatGPT is going to get access to your data without those criteria being true...at least I hope it doesn't.

Apple: "Trust me, bro."

 

[growlf]

If Apple thinks anything is a good idea, legions of "Apple is always right" fans think so too. I think it's in the rules.

Has anyone bothered to pay attention to the article at all? This has nothing to do with Apple software. This is a third-party app that integrates with other apps. Don't like ChatGPT, don't download it.

Wonder how many people don't like Sam because Elon told them he was evil?

Ollama and RAGflow.io FTW.

 

[You’re not me]

The amount of posts from people that are afraid of AI is simply astonishing. Remember, you fear what you don’t understand.

 

[gleepskip]

The amount of posts from people that are afraid of AI is simply astonishing. Remember, you fear what you don’t understand.

I don't fear AI. I fear AI in the hands of people I have no reason to trust.

 

[dabirdwell]

It would be great to have Obsidian integration, as it has become my main note-taking app, completely replacing Notion that asked me to be always online. Although not as versatile as Notion, with Obsidian I can comfortably access, edit and work on all my notes offline, and let it sync again whenever I regain internet connection.

By the way, about the Mac chatGPT app, I EXPECT it to need permission from macOS itself. I don’t fully trust chatGPT app settings and I would much prefer to have the permission for reading my Apple Notes (which contain personal information) disabled from the operating system settings itself.

Claude projects with MCP is great for this, and can call out to ChatGPT simultaneously if you want them to work together.