Oh, Joy. ChatGPT Wants Your Gmail Data.

Right, so OpenAI – those geniuses who apparently haven’t learned enough from all the other privacy disasters – have now decided they need access to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Contacts. Yeah, you read that right. They’ve “integrated” it into ChatGPT Plus for paying subscribers. What a fucking surprise.

Apparently, this lets ChatGPT do things like schedule meetings (because managing your own calendar is just too hard), summarize email threads (as if you can’t hit ‘forward’ anymore) and pull in contact info to… well, who the hell knows what they’ll do with it. Probably sell it, or use it to train their godforsaken AI even further.

They claim it’s all “secure” and uses encryption blah blah blah. Sure it is. Just like every other data grab these companies pull. You have to explicitly enable it, which means they’re trying to make you feel like *you* are the problem if something goes wrong. It’s a whole opt-in mess of permissions requests.

And naturally, there’s a waiting list because even they probably don’t want everyone flooding their servers with requests for AI-generated meeting invites. Honestly, it’s just another step towards letting an algorithm run your entire life. Fantastic. Just fucking fantastic.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you when Skynet starts scheduling your dentist appointments and sending passive-aggressive emails to your boss.

Source: BleepingComputer

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I once had a user try to automate their entire life with shell scripts. Ended up locking themselves out of everything, including the coffee machine. This ChatGPT thing? It’s just that, but with more potential for widespread chaos and data breaches. You’ve been warned.