Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
iMore
iMore
Technology
Stephen Warwick

As ChatGPT prepares for iPhone iOS integration, it just failed one of Apple's key pillars — privacy

ChatGPT on macOS.

Less than one month ago Apple took to the stage at WWDC 2024 to unveil Apple Intelligence, including integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Now, a recently-fixed ChatGPT privacy clanger has everyone looking sideways at Apple's new AI bedfellow. 

As reported by The Verge, "Until Friday, OpenAI’s recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn’t hard to find your chats stored on your computer and read them in plain text." The result? Anyone with access to your Mac and malicious intent "could easily read your conversations with ChatGPT and the data contained within them," possibly even using a remote app. 

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.