Tyler King: OpenAI intentionally went around default MacOS safety features which would have prevented this because they are as dumb as they are reckless.

OpenAI intentionally went around default MacOS safety features which would have prevented this because they are as dumb as they are reckless.

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain textarstechnica.com The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.

And It is bad enough with just using meta-data & resulting LLM generated content to train LLM replacement for employee's tasks & entire jobs.

🍎🧵2/2 Interaction Meta-data like when you select one AI answer over others or accept an action, will be fed back to either Apple or third party AI providers such as MIcrosoft partnered OpenAI or Google's AIs. Improving AIs to the point where it will send most office jobs the way of the typing pool.

Tales from the typing poolwww.rnz.co.nz Over the years, thousands of New Zealand women worked in public service typing pools since the 1940s. "Typing pool" is an obsolete term these days, but government departments and private businesses st...

And Apple LET them?

So if I understand correctly, they sidestepped the safety features by essentially only indicating they’re using non-private functions and then using those to conduct sensitive/private functions like saving everything you type. Which OpenAI warns it does unless you tell it to erase after each session

Hmm. Seems odd that that's still possible after Apple made such a big deal of their new and improved privacy features.

The article says the app has to be downloaded from open AIs website because the app store won't allow apps that do this I think you have to explicitly grant permission (sure, people click through without reading, but still) If Apple blocked those opinions we'd all be upset about a walled garden

Yeah, if it’s not going through Apple’s review process, anything goes. The OS will warn you with a ‘hey, this is a sketchy internet download, you really wanna do this?’ alert, and that’s about it.

Yeah, Apple has gotten pummeled by lawsuits specifically so bad companies can compromise more of your privacy and probably defraud you. I’m no tech apologist but considering the alternative, I prefer the Apple’s garden.

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