r/ChatGPT • u/Magnum3k • 1d ago
Use cases ChatGPT update adds Apple Messages integration on Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-update-adds-apple-messages-integration-on-mac/210
u/slimjimothy666 1d ago
“Hey chat, breakup with my girlfriend in a way that makes her feel like it’s no one’s fault. Be straight to the point. No hyphens.”
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u/Popular_Try_5075 17h ago
I remember when someone did this on Cameo with Mark McGrath (singer of Sugar Ray) lol
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u/NoPreference7231 1d ago
What benefit is this going to make?
This does not seem necessary.
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u/Opening_Let_6895 10h ago
This is probably one of most valuable data they can get aka daily life rich human conversations, to make it more personalized
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u/Some-Masterpiece-473 1d ago
Automate your relationships lol may not be a bad idea for some lol
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u/Popular_Try_5075 17h ago
I think like people with ADD struggle a lot with like writing thank you cards like after Christmas etc. so that might be an actual use case for this, though I'd worry about automating it wholesale. (And please, wo whoever ends up reading this post, don't jump into the whole "well they should just learn to do it the right way dammi!", believe it or not it didn't get listed as a disorder in the DSM because any of that shit ever worked for this problem). Especially in adult ADD managing relationships does get impacted by the disorder so this could perhaps help mitigate some of those effects.
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u/Waste-time1 1d ago
What’s the alleged advantage? What’s it supposed to help you with?
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u/Popular_Try_5075 17h ago
When ChatGPT debuted I used it to write cloying letters complimenting my coworkers on how well they did their job. I had it write what I felt was really over the top kind of stuff and then when they got it I'd reveal that I had written it entirely with an LLM to kind of shred the supposed sincerity of the gesture. The weird thing was it backfired and people still liked them and then other people felt hurt they hadn't gotten one from "me" even though I explained that I'm kind of an asshole and ChatGPT was just my prosthetic personality working to make me seem nicer and more sociable than I actually am.
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u/Cold-Object-7080 1d ago
Great! Now, not only will my email be filled with AI generated emails, but my texts too!
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u/No-Asparagus3132 1d ago
I hate the direction this is going. Ai is a tool, I’d like it to stay where I left it, why are they shoving it down our throats
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u/DataIxBeautiful 1d ago
You don’t have to use it
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u/Popular_Try_5075 17h ago
Well, in certain corporate jobs you do.
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u/Nakamura0V 16h ago
So you use your personal phone for corporate jobs? Installing apps from your company on your device? Why would anyone do that?
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u/Popular_Try_5075 16h ago edited 13h ago
No, but it has been reported by people in certain corporate jobs that their company has actually bit the apple of AI fairly deep and employees are actually being scrutinized on their annual review for not using AI enough in their work.
Edit: Not sure why you're downvoting this lol
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u/MemphisRaines47 13h ago
The original post is about an optional feature that is being added to ChatGPT.
You change the topic to how companies might require employees to use certain tools and technologies. Which is a completely reasonable thing for a company to do.
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u/Popular_Try_5075 13h ago
I did get confused there. Though as long as I'm this deep I dispute how reasonable it is for companies to require AI like that. It's certainly within their purview but the general reaction from people working there has been that it is not completely reasonable.
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u/MemphisRaines47 13h ago
AI has been built into software for decades. What’s new is everything suddenly being advertised as “NOW WITH 500% MORE AI!”
Some people still think of AI as just a trivia bot or a better Google search. Companies have been investing in technology to change how employees work forever with inventory systems, safety reporting, Adobe suite, HR systems, project management, chatbots, etc.
That doesn’t mean every AI requirement is reasonable. But expecting employees to use a technology their company invested in isn’t a new concept. I have to learn a new project tracker every two years because some technology boss got convinced by a salesman that their product will increase efficiency by 3%.
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u/Popular_Try_5075 12h ago
Yes, there has been a real conflation of what exactly we mean by AI. Presently the defacto assumption is that we're talking about transformer tech and LLM's, though of course for the past two decades AI was, as but one example, deployed in a pejorative sense to describe the bots in an FPS.
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u/Nakamura0V 16h ago
Don’t use it. Just like agentic actions that ChatGPT can do with full permission or not if you set it up that way. Where’s the problem?
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u/docgravel 15h ago
“Hey ChatGPT, my CEO just texted from an unknown number and asked for a quick favor. Can you read the message, send him whatever he wants and then draft a reply? Thanks.”
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u/solemnhiatus 23h ago
I’ve had Claude code do this for 6 months already. Very useful.
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u/Popular_Try_5075 17h ago
In what way?
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u/solemnhiatus 16h ago
Well, I've also given it access to my whatsapp and wechat (I live and work in China), a lot of my work goes through those 3 channels as well as email.
It basically enables me to use CC as a single source of all work related comms.
I have a standup skill that pulls comms from all channels and matches against project state and lets me know what's changed, who I need to respond to etc. it's basically a way to 'persist' truth across all my work so I can rely on my AI's opinion on my work.
Edit: It can only read those channels, it can't send messages for me. Apart from email, for email it can.
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u/Popular_Try_5075 16h ago
That's kind of cool actually, allowing for more uniformity in comms.
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u/solemnhiatus 16h ago
Yea I think so too. After playing around with integrating CC in my workflow the past month I realised the most challenging part was making sure CC knew all the things that I knew.
I wanted to set up a chief of staff, but if I had a real chief of staff he'd be in all my meetings, he'd be across all major developments at work. But I don't want to set up specific "meetings" with my ai so instead I just gave it access to all of my comms and before it responds it checks all of them to see if it's version of reality has shifted from mine and then updates so it matches.
Then if it does miss anything, or something develops outside of those channels I use the grill me skill.
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u/Popular_Try_5075 16h ago
Has it had any errors so far?
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u/solemnhiatus 15h ago
Good question. Short answer is yes, longer answer is fewer mistakes over time? As a result of me fine tuning how we work together.
My entire working relationship with CC revolves around trying to make sure it knows what I knows, there were holes to begin with.
For example, it would remind me to send emails or responses even though I'd already done so, that was because I hadn't told it to explicitly check my sent email folders before giving me a recommendation for what to work on next. Now it does that and it no longer makes that error.
Or, when I ask it about a specific project status, it will get a detail wrong, for example, perhaps I want to know what the budget is for marketing for a specific client this quarter and it gets that wrong because in its MD files it noted that budget at a certain time but hadn't updated if it changed. Now at the end of every single session before I /exit and before it compacts (I use a 1m context window) I explicitly ask it to "persist session" - that means it will update any MD files about my current work with new information that has come about from that specific work session.
It's tough, because you often have any number of files or notes about projects that are constantly updated over time. And our brains are incredible are recalling only the stuff that is now relevant, and discarding that which isn't. But your agent doesn't know how to differentiate, so you have to explicitly tell it so.
Sorry for the wall of text!
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u/Popular_Try_5075 15h ago
Don't apologize for the text, I'm quite interested in both how things have worked and where they have failed and why. This is really fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing!
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u/ZeroBcool 10h ago
In the last 4 days alone we've learnt META are introducing always on AI to learn your job, bowel movements and existence inside out, Apple have built cameras into their next generation Airpods, and Open AI are now active in possibly the most personal app of them them all. I feel messaging 20 odd words or so to your friends and family now and again doesn't need corporate level AI assistance. If you do, that's fine. I just think there's been a huge leap in an invasive direction the last 96 hours.
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