ChatGPT Wants to Run Your Apple Messages, but Privacy Questions Remain

ChatGPT Wants to Run Your Apple Messages, but Privacy Questions Remain
OpenAI has moved ChatGPT closer to one of the most intimate places on a Mac: the Messages inbox. The new plug-in promises convenience, but it also asks users to hand an AI system a far more active role in their private conversations.

The launch gives ChatGPT on Mac access to Apple Messages, allowing users to sift through chats, analyze threads, edit text and retrieve details buried in old exchanges. It can also work with Codex and ChatGPT Work, positioning the feature as a tool for professional correspondence as well as personal messaging.

The practical pitch is straightforward. OpenAI says users can “Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies.” In a demonstration described by reporting on the launch, a user asks ChatGPT to propose follow-up notes based on messages received the previous day. The plug-in can also delete messages, draft new ones and send them on a user’s behalf.

That last step is where the convenience becomes more consequential. OpenAI advises users to monitor the system’s actions and warns against persistent approval, saying it “removes your final chance to review a message before ChatGPT sends it as you.”

Privacy is the other unresolved fault line. OpenAI told Bloomberg that the plug-in operates locally and “doesn’t create an index of all someone’s messages,” though the precise limits of that arrangement were not immediately clear. The rollout therefore offers a familiar AI trade-off: faster communication and deeper search, in exchange for granting software access to a record of people’s lives and relationships.

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