(Image credit: Shutterstock)
I use ChatGPT and Claude every day, and lately I've found plenty of reasons to give Claude the edge. And just a day after Anthropic made it possible for Claude to send emails, OpenAI just added a feature that no other AI assistant can currently do.ChatGPT can now connect directly to Apple Messages on a Mac, allowing it to search conversations, draft replies and even send messages on your behalf. While other AI assistants can help you write a text message, ChatGPT takes the task a step further with an Apple Messages plugin.ChatGPT can now act on your messages
(Image credit: Future)The new Apple Messages plugin arrived as part of an update to the ChatGPT app for macOS. It gives ChatGPT access to the Messages app on your Mac, including conversations synced through iMessage as well as SMS and RCS messages.Once you've given it permission, you can ask ChatGPT to search your conversations or pull up messages from a particular person. More importantly, you can ask it to compose and send a new message without opening Messages and doing it yourself.For example, you could ask ChatGPT to find your recent conversation with a friend, work out what you agreed on and send a follow-up. Or you could simply tell it to message someone that you're running late.There are safeguards around that last step. ChatGPT asks you to approve the recipients and the contents of a message before it sends anything by default, so giving it access doesn't mean the AI suddenly has free rein to start texting people from your account.This is where ChatGPT has an advantage over Claude
