ChatGPT Partners with Apple to Integrate into iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS Messaging
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ChatGPT can now connect to your text messages on your Mac. You can ask ChatGPT to send a text or search your existing message.
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TechCrunchIf you’ve ever wanted to share all of your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news for you: the AI lab has just launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing interested users to connect their Messages inbox with the chatbot.
CNETAfter adding the Apple Messages plugin, you can activate it by typing @ followed by the plugin name or using the + menu in ChatGPT. That’s the same procedure you use to activate other plugins during a chat.
EngadgetOpenAI has released a plugin for the integration. OpenAI has launched a plugin for the Apple Messages app, and as Bloomberg notes, it could raise privacy and security concerns. At the moment, it's only available to ChatGPT Work and Codex users on Mac, allowing them to search messages and even draft and send replies through the chatbot on their desktop. In the example OpenAI posted, the user asked ChatGPT to look for conversations they'd missed the day before in their Messages app. They then used the chatbot to write and send their reply.
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OpenAI and Apple originally launched a partnership in June 2024 to integrate ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS and MacOS systems. But the relationship became strained in July this year, when Apple sued OpenAI in federal court, alleging Sam Altman’s company stole trade secrets and misappropriated intellectual property.
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EngadgetIt's not quite clear if OpenAI worked with Apple to develop the plugin, but the latter has history of cutting off third parties' access to its services if they didn't get permission. In 2024, for instance, it kept disabling Beeper Mini chat app's access to iMessage until Beeper gave up rolling out fixes that re-enabled the integration. It's also worth noting that Apple and OpenAI aren't quite on the best of terms recently. The iPhone-maker sued OpenAI in July, accusing it of trade secret theft. It claimed that OpenAI specifically hired its employees away with the purpose of obtaining confidential company information.
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The benefits of doing this, OpenAI argues, are numerous. Users can use the plugin to sort, analyze, or edit their messages directly from ChatGPT. The plugin also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work, so users can use it professionally, not just personally.
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CNETMore: 11 Ways ChatGPT Is Completely and Utterly Unreliable How the new plugin works
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01 Engadget LinkedIn recently began testing a dedicated reporting tool for AI slop. After only a few weeks, the company says it's already improving the quality of the posts people see in their feeds.
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02 TechCrunch A brief commercial advertising the new plugin shows a user asking the chatbot to suggest follow-up messages to their contacts based on the messages received the previous day.
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03 CNET Representatives for OpenAI and Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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04 ZDNet The latter caught my eye, because it finally gives you much greater control over your Discover page than ever before.
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