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Meta says that the Muse agent cannot read Messages app conversations on Mac devices unless explicit permissions are enabled, responding to a journalist’s account that the agent accessed his messages despite Full Disk Access being disabled. The dispute raises practical questions about interpreting notifications and the limits of trust in AI agents.
OpenAI has launched an add-on that enables ChatGPT to search iMessage, SMS, and RCS messages on Mac devices, analyze and summarize conversations, prepare replies, and send them after user approval. The integration requires broad permissions in macOS, raising new questions about the privacy of personal messages.