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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 41 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I store almost everyfuck in plain text, so what?

Oh, somebody wants to use techbro stuff and expect security.

[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Many people now use ChatGPT like they might use Google: to ask important questions, sort through issues, and so on. Often, sensitive personal data could be shared in those conversations.

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Don't a lot of people also keep their tax information as plain text in their PC? If someone's really worried about that stuff being leaked I think it's on them to download VeraCrypt or smth, and also not to use ChatGPT for sensitive stuff knowing that OpenAI and Apple will obviously use it as training data.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Well, there's a good side to this - at least the recipe of that totally not poisonous green cocktail will be available from logs.