ChatGPT for Mac Exposes Data of Millions of Users who downloaded it to their computers. OpenAI’s AI chatbot saved chats in unencrypted formso that anyone can access them without your knowledge. The vulnerability was discovered by a Spanish developer, who showed how easy it is to read conversations from another app.
In accordance with Edgea vulnerability in ChatGPT for Mac allowed access to plain text conversations. Pedro José Pereira Vieito, a software engineer from Galicia, discovered that ChatGPT for Mac does not comply with macOS security guidelines.Instead of protecting user data, OpenAI saved chatbot conversations as plain text.
Because ChatGPT is not offered in the Mac App Store, OpenAI is not required to follow security rules that require any app that accesses personal data to have explicit user authorization. This allows the AI chatbot to did not encrypt conversations and saved them in an unprotected folder.
Once he had located the location, Pereira Vieito developed an app that displayed the user’s conversations with ChatGPT for Mac. The data was displayed in plain text and was accessible at the click of a button. According to EdgeThe files had an unknown extension, but by changing the name to .txt it was possible to read the contents of the chats.
OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Vulnerability for Mac
It didn’t take long for OpenAI to fix the problem and encrypt the files. After contacting the media, the AI company ChatGPT for Mac Releases Update Fixing VulnerabilityAn OpenAI spokesperson noted that they strive to “maintain high safety standards” as technology evolves.
The decision not to encrypt data from the start piqued Pereira Vieito’s curiosity, as he comments on his Threads account.
“Any app that has access to a user’s personal data (calendar, contacts, mail, photos, any third-party app sandbox, etc.) now requires explicit user access,” he said, “OpenAI has done away with the sandbox. “tests and stores conversations in plaintext in an unprotected location, disabling all of those built-in protections.”
ChatGPT for Mac It made its official debut during the OpenAI event where GPT-4o was unveiled. has all the features of a chatbot with artificial intelligenceincluding the ability to access the most powerful language model. Unlike other Mac apps, ChatGPT It is not available in the App Store.so you will have to download the file from the OpenAI website.
To run it, you’ll need at least macOS 14 and your Mac has an M1 processor or higher. ChatGPT can’t run on Intel-based Macs, including the 2021 Mac Pro.
Source: Hiper Textual
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