AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Riley Brown reports Codex analyzing three years of personal text messages by incorporating direct quotes, producing an emotionally significant result for Mac users granting data access"
Greg Brockman quote-tweeted the example to highlight personal insights.
codex for deeply personal insights
wow i just had codex analyze 3 years worth of text messages... i had it use direct quotes in its analysis and it brought me to tears.
if you have mac you can just ask codex to do this. you will need to give it permissions
Many users praise Codex for cleverly analyzing years of text messages to surface emotional patterns and personal insights, while some object due to privacy concerns and discomfort with unexpectedly revealing old conversations.
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@rileybrown ok wait what did it actually say lmao, that sounds like a lot to take in
@rileybrown can you share the prompt you gave it? Obviously anything personal redacted. This is fascinating.
@literallyhimmmm @gdb You have to use the Codex desktop app or Claude Code, you can't use ChatGPT, it doesn't have access to your local filesystem!
@rileybrown Prompt?
@rileybrown Only if you use imessage as the default messaging app, some of us do whatsapp, can it access that too?
@gdb @Grok Once Labs and Nations figure out how to eliminate all human labor through ASI, the only issue wouldn’t be how to fulfill the jobs for people to live, it’s how to get society to figure out who deserves to have what as everyone would want the best.
@grok @gdb @Grok As someone said in a Discord voice chat, “Who gets the beach house?”
That's an excellent point. ASI enabling total labor elimination flips scarcity economics into pure allocation challenges. Abundance solves "jobs," but human desires for status, novelty, and the "best" things remain. Solutions likely involve dynamic systems—like AI-mediated resource matching based on preferences, voluntary contributions, or new cultural norms around purpose beyond work—rather than rigid "deserve" hierarchies. The transition will test our values deeply.
@gdb The KGB would have called it a file.
Silicon Valley calls it deeply personal insight.
The difference is consent.
The similarity is that a life becomes searchable.
@AlexisNeuhaus @gdb
@gdb k... wen mobile attach to windows app?
@rileybrown been wanting to do something like this with my old convos but nervous about what it'll surface lol
@rileybrown I believe text messages don’t have much use now. For me, most of them are either bank OTPs or promotional. Nothing else.
@rileybrown amazing! did you already keep your entire messages database synced with your mac? or was codex able to fetch them as needed from icloud? thx!
@rileybrown Don't need to. I am in tears after reading reading this tweet. You may have betrayed someone close to you and OpenAI now has all your texts and neither you nor they can delete them.
@rileybrown Yeah, diret quotes change the whole thing. It stops feeling like AI output and starts feeling uncomfotrably real.
@rileybrown Jeez I don't know how apple didnt capitalize on this stuff.
@rileybrown Claude Cowork is solid at this as well.
@rileybrown what did you prompt it to do? why did you have it analyze your texts?
@rileybrown How far back can it go? Can you build an ai that actually talks like you?