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There really wasn’t an expectation of privacy with this. This is not a surprise.
Microsoft’s much-heralded Notepad.exe was storing files as plain text
Same level of security concern. Quit putting your sensitive data into apps that aren’t meant for it.
Yup. Especially apps that are pushing the wonders of cloud services to share that data everywhere.
Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.
We mustn’t enter any private info in a large language model (llm) in the 1st place. The conversations are probably used to train ai models.
There should be 2 disclaimers in any llm –
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The llm’s responses aren’t always based on facts. It can say wrong info sometimes.
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Users mustn’t enter any private info in the llm.
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So many apps use sqlite or json files for storage without encryption; this doesn’t seem like much of a discovery.
In any case, don’t share PII or any of your deepest, darkest secrets with it.
I store almost everyfuck in plain text, so what?
Oh, somebody wants to use techbro stuff and expect security.
Many people now use ChatGPT like they might use Google: to ask important questions, sort through issues, and so on. Often, sensitive personal data could be shared in those conversations.
Don’t a lot of people also keep their tax information as plain text in their PC? If someone’s really worried about that stuff being leaked I think it’s on them to download VeraCrypt or smth, and also not to use ChatGPT for sensitive stuff knowing that OpenAI and Apple will obviously use it as training data.
Well, there’s a good side to this - at least the recipe of that totally not poisonous green cocktail will be available from logs.
Apple has been running ad campaigns about how “Safari is a private browser” lately. The irony of screwing this up, when they even sandbox your Downloads folderI’m an idiotHow is that related to OpenAI’s app? It’s not an Apple product.
Oh I’m an idiot. Thought this was an official MacOS app.
This is why Apple partnered with them. To keep an eye on them.
Yea… and absolutely not to pump those stock prices.
Why do you think only one of those can be true?
Why would apple care about the privacy implications of openAI? No one will blame Apple for privacy concerns arising because of them.
Now that OpenAI’s technology is integrated all the way across Apple’s flagship software and flagship devices, I guarantee you people will blame Apple if OpenAI fumbles privacy even if just on their end.
I’ve been hearing mixed reactions to Apple choosing OpenAI, because of recent drama and because of Sam Altman specifically. To me, it feels like a “keep your enemies closer” decision on Apple’s part because while the company sucks, they do have a competitive (potentially superior) service at the moment.
And Apple has jack without some kind of partnership.
Well the ChatGPT Mac app and the universal Siri AI are two different things.
Imagine if it was just the OpenAI app.
The masses want AI, even if they don’t know why. And OpenAI is a big name, even if they make Google look privacy-conscious. The smartest thing for Apple to do is to funnel as many inevitable OpenAI users on their platforms through their own sanitized version of the service.
I don’t like to blindly imagine things like most of the Lemmy user base.
Oh you sweet summer child…