Tech Desk 
Jul 07, 2024
In a full-of-misery development around Apple's push into the artificial intelligence (AI) realm flaunted at the groundbreaking Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2024), a report has emerged on the scene, claiming that the Mac version of the ChatGPT app is unable to sandbox conversations.
It's claiming that users' conversations with the ChatGPT app on Mac aren't secured in terms of end-to-end encryption, this means that the data can easily be accessed by third-party apps or anyone with your machine in reach.
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Pedro José Pereira Vieito, a data & electronics engineer and a prolific Swift developer, highlighted this concern on Threads earlier this week.
“The OpenAI ChatGPT app on macOS is not sandboxed, and stores all the conversations in plain-text in a non-protected location. So basically any other running app/process/malware can read all your ChatGPT conversations without any permission prompt,” stated his post on Threads.
In a demonstration reported by Mac World, he proved how other apps on your Mac could access ChatGPT’s logs and display a conversation right after it happened.
What further raises eyebrows is that a Mac is designed with a policy of data siloing, or sandboxing, to ensure that an app doesn't access another app's data without permission.
As being well considerate of consumer woes is Apple's trait, the privacy folly was addressed in an update when the iPhone maker collaborated with OpenAI right after the issue caught their attention.
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