I’m actually pretty upset Apple allowed this. While the feature is cool, the technical functionality that enables it is not cool.
If I was Tim Apple, OAI would be temporarily banned from the App Store until this is reversed, and here’s why:
I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted, with server keys I can own. Local caches are on devices that are encrypted with my passwords, not apples keys.
This makes it and computationally and legally impossible for anyone else to access chat history but the people I trust and directly communicated with.
But *now* the copies of my messages from years ago on *anyones* laptop in what is *supposed* to be an encrypted-at-rest local cache only can now be fetched directly by chatgpt without my permission or even knowledge and stored and processed in plain text forever on openai / Microsoft servers unencrypted and requested by any government entity at a moments notice without my knowledge and openai/Microsoft legally have to provide that, in federally enforced total secrecy. And they’re never legally allowed to admit they do it.
AND because of default chatgpt settings most people haven’t bothered to turn off, all those private texts can now be used for training and will end up in the weights of future models, so all future AI models will permanently know all of our private lives as a part of the weights, immortalized forever as training checkpoints.
Total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal on Apples part. This should be the most viral story of 2026 by 100x. The permanent end of private communication in the US.
Lmao no absolutely not a collaboration, there does not need to be a collaboration, its completely normal practice for 3rd party applications to read the chat.db.
Go ask your ai about the history of chat.db then come back here and see how confidently wrong you sound from the side lol.
Brother you have no idea what your talking about.
chat.db has been accessible for a decade.
And no it is not “encrypted” its a simple sqlite db lol.
The reason this does not break TOS, is because its being accessed by the user, there is a reason apple is ok with this.
This has been a think with third party apps accessing chat.db for over a decade.
Dont confidently talk about things you have no idea about please.
i did enable 1m context and noticed usage going down insanely fast (obviously) but then i disabled it, and noticed its still going down considerably fast? lasting me 24hrs now? makes me feel like im back in the cursor sub days when id spend $200 a day.. something could be off, because as soon as i read those reports it was like a "oh im not the only one"
But could be placebo.
@A_Pasevin@dhh@thdxr there was one more p2p sharing protocol, i forgot what its called, something net... where downloads were insanely fast, even during dial up days.