Because safety is what, Kefalín? Definitely not the main thing. Okay, maybe you also have your journal unencrypted on disk, but that looks suspicious for a widely used AI.
A few days ago, the OpenAI company released the ChatGPT application for macOS as well, so that even those citizens who use Apple for some reason (I quite understand what Win11 does sometimes) can share life with artificial intelligence. But there was a small and perhaps quite potentially exploitable feature of the application. All conversations between the user and the AI were stored on disk unencrypted, as plain text. If someone got into your machine and knew what to do, they could easily find the files and learn how you wanted to grow pizza and how to convert a hydrogen powered car with a pencil, a pack of 30% edam and a 486 processor.
The bug was discovered on the Threads social network by user Pedro José Pereira Vieito a demonstrated this using a custom program that sniffs text files and shows the conversation. This was verified by the editor of The Verge and found that it really works. The Verge then contacted OpenAI and told them they had a problem, which OpenAI promptly resolved with an update to their application. After the update, the conversation is already properly encrypted. It is important that OpenAI only offers the program for macOS on its website, so it does not have to meet the security requirements of Apple and its store. Maybe that’s why they kept this backdoor.
Source: pctuning.cz
