ChatGPT Reads iMessages: "Betrayal" of User Trust?

ChatGPT now has an Apple Messages plugin that can read and search iMessage, SMS, and RCS chats. This means an AI chatbot can access your personal conversations. The plugin can also send messages on your behalf, either with user approval or automatically. This new feature has sparked significant concern among critics, who call it a "betrayal" of user trust. Some observers worry about the implications of allowing an AI chatbot to access private messages. Questions have been raised about how users can opt out if a contact enables the plugin. One developer described it as "total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal." While OpenAI states the plugin runs locally and doesn't save messages to its servers, critics point out that even "quantum encrypted" iMessages could be fetched by ChatGPT if a contact opts in. This raises serious privacy concerns about past and future communications.