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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So? OpenAI is to my knowledge open about incorporating conversations into future versions of GPT, and you can often get it to replay training data in full, so your effectively publishing your conversations to the open internet anyway. This feels more like saying that my lemmy comments are stored in plain text on my phone than any sort of security violation.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It's something that should be publicised not because OpenAI has promised privacy, but because a lot of people seem to assume it where it has not been offered, and they need to be reminded that they're kind of out to lunch on the issue.

    Like, people in companies keep using these things to write reports with privileged information. People need to be informed as gently but alsonas firmly as possible that they're sending this stuff over the internet to an organization that considers everything it can see to be its own.

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