OpenAI has turned ChatGPT on the Mac into a reader, searcher and sender inside Apple’s Messages app. The can find details across iMessage, SMS and RCS chats, summarise conversations, prepare replies and send them after approval. It works inside ChatGPT Work and Codex chats on Apple-silicon Macs.The privacy question has a precise shape. Apple’s end-to-end encryption continues to protect iMessage during delivery. The plugin enters after delivery, through a Mac that already holds readable copies. The risk therefore sits at the authorised endpoint: which chats ChatGPT retrieves, what reaches OpenAI’s systems, how that material is retained, and whether a message leaves the Mac according to the user’s intended instruction.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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