ChatGPT can now text people for you📰 OpenAI gave ChatGPT the ability to read, write, and send iMessages on your behalf. You can ask it to dig through your chat with your boss to find a deadline, or — per OpenAI's own demo — have it "write a poem about soup and send it to a friend." Yeah, that's apparently the bar for useful use cases right now.
ℹ️ To do any of this, it needs to hoover up your entire message history first. That means your bank's SMS notifications, financial details, inside jokes, personal stuff with friends and family, all of it gets fed in, presumably so that when you ask "what should I get my friend for their birthday," it can hallucinate something halfway decent.
OpenAI says the bot won't just start firing off messages to random people without your permission. Whether that holds up in practice is something users get to find out themselves.@iPhone
