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Tools to do this are and have been available for many months.

The difficulty is in scale. Enabling every smartphone owner to use GenAI, especially using voice commands requires hardware resources several orders of magnitude greater than what OpenAI is currently burning through.

The LLM-powered Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant was a matter of infrastructure investment.

With the recent Apple's announcement, it's only a matter of time with Google and others following through.

> Tools to do this are and have been available for many months.

Yes, indeed im also using this “workaround” since some months ago (3/4?)

>The difficulty is in scale. Enabling every smartphone owner to use GenAI, especially using voice commands requires hardware resources several orders of magnitude greater than what OpenAI is currently burning through. >The LLM-powered Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant was a matter of infrastructure investment. >With the recent Apple's announcement, it's only a matter of time with Google and others following through.

I absolutely agree, but these things need to be handled by Apple/ChatGPT or those who maintain the servers. For me, it's enough that it works now. Hoping the official integration doesn't come too late...

> Hoping the official integration doesn't come too late...

Too late for what?

For my impatience I think :)

In a similar vein, check out Federico Viticci's S-GPT shortcut for ChatGPT integration with a bunch of system features rather than text editing

https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...

It handles requests like "I want a playlist with the top 15 songs by the members of boygenius" and turns it into a playlist in Music

I’m hoping the Apple version would do things like “make me a playlist of new artists based on songs I use to work out” or “play songs from my library that I like but haven’t heard in the past 6 months”

To be honest, this method appears more complicated and has more friction than my already tricky approach. By the way, it’s better in some aspects because it can perform a lot more functions than text actions.

The iOS copy/paste/other actions menu is so unintuitive. 4 taps to share?

As an iPhone user, I really don't understand Apple sometimes. I want to love their work, then dumb things like this happen. There's other pet peeves I have, but overall, I don't see myself ever going back to Android. You can probably say the same of any other software company.

I had some feedback, then I read this. Yep, it’s neat!

Hey. If you want to take it further, add the feature no one asked for. That’s the name of the game.

Yes, unfortunately. You can also use the swipe gesture over the pop-up, even though the overall system is still a bit tricky.

Text selection and editing on iOS is broken in general. Trying to replace just a part of a URL in the Safari address bar with the clipboard contents is nearly impossible, even if you know that long pressing space moves the cursor.

Did a bunch of these for the Mac back in February, and have since rebuilt many for iOS to work exactly like that: https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2024/02/22/1900

I have been doing something similar for months. I share the text with an automation shortcut that adds a prompt to it and opens Copilot for me. I just paste the text there manually since it’s not possible to paste with shortcuts. It works great and it’s totally free! I just used it to proofread this reply too.

FYI: Didn't realize your first gif was animated. It doesn't loop. Should probably fix that.

Oh my mistake, thanks, I’ll fix it as soon as I can use a Mac.

Edit: fixed, now it should loops properly :) thanks again!

Apple's official support promises strong focus on privacy. Would it offer any benefits over this solution? Or would they be equal from the privacy point of view?

I didn't read the announcements and I don't know the details, if anyone knows more please explain.

Apple doesn’t farm all its GenAI out to OpenAI, not even all its server-side stuff. So, yes.

For the portion that it does farm out, is that tied to an unique user identifier or is that session based?

Seems non-intuitive to have to select "Share".

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