ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
Seriously? —
The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style.Samuel Axon
OpenAI announced its Mac desktop app for ChatGPT with a lot of fanfare a few weeks ago, but it turns out it had a rather serious security issue: user chats were stored in plain text, where any bad actor could find them if they gained access to your machine.
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