PCMag: “You can now sync your contacts and ‘find friends’ on OpenAI. Is this the first major step toward the company becoming a social media app? ChatGPT is getting more social, with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any other OpenAI product. Details are light; the company has not shared images of what this experience will look like or what it will unlock for users. However, it has changed its privacy policy to say that contact syncing will help users “find friends.” It’s “completely optional,” it says. However, even if you don’t opt in, anyone with your number who syncs their contacts are giving OpenAI your digits. “OpenAI may process your phone number if someone you know has your phone number saved in their device’s address book and chooses to upload their contacts,” the company says…”