In an embarrassing development so soon after Apple ’s AI announcements at WWDC , it emerged this hebdomad that the ChatGPT app for Mac has been failing to sandpile conversation , meaning the data point can be easily accessed by other apps or anyone else who has access to your machine .
Pedro José Pereira Vieito outlined his concerns onThreadsearlier this week .
“ The OpenAI ChatGPT app on macOS is not sandboxed , ” he explained , “ and stores all the conversations inplain - textin a non - protected location:~/Library / program\ Support / com.openai.chat / conve … {uuid}/So essentially any other running app / process / malware can read all your ChatGPT conversation without any permit prompt . ”
Pereira Vieito demonstrated toThe Vergethat a 2d app could access ChatGPT ’s log and show you the text of a conversation immediately after it happened . That ’s not how things are supposed to work on the Mac , which has a policy of data siloing , or sandboxing , so that each app is unable to see other apps ’ data without explicit permission .
As The Verge reports , the defect was patched with an update shortly after it nurture the issue with OpenAI . But doubts concerning the service ’s trustiness may remain .
And not just for OpenAI . Apple has long trumpeted its own pro - security and pro - privacy credential , and only last month announced that OpenAI would be the first and high - visibility married person for the newApple Intelligenceproject . When this AI lineament launching later this year , most tasks will be handle by Apple ’s own systems , but certain task will be handed off to third - party bots … with the user ’s permit . Apple says ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence will confuse IP addresses and requests wo n’t stored .
Google Gemini and other third - party AI assistants are also expect to join Apple Intelligence , but ChatGPT is the only confirm chatbot for now .
