If you’ve ever wanted to share all your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news. AI Labs just released an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT. This will allow interested users to connect their message inboxes to the chatbot.
OpenAI claims there are many benefits to doing this. Plugins allow users to sort, analyze, or edit messages directly from ChatGPT. This plugin can also be integrated with Codex and ChatGPT Work, allowing users to use it both personally and professionally.
A short commercial promoting the new plugin shows a user asking a chatbot to suggest follow-up messages to a contact based on messages received the previous day.
You can also ask ChatGPT to delete messages, draft and send messages on your behalf, or find information buried deep in your message history.
As with most things related to AI, this new feature raises some privacy questions. OpenAI told Bloomberg that the plugin runs locally on a user’s machine and “does not index all of someone’s messages.” Still, it’s not immediately clear what that means. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for more information.
When it comes to sending messages, OpenAI encourages users to pay attention to ChatGPT’s behavior and discourages them from turning on persistent approvals, warning that doing so “deprives ChatGPT of your last chance to review messages before they send them,” the company wrote.
