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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text

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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.
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    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.

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    Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.

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      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 –

      1. The llm’s responses aren’t always based on facts. It can say wrong info sometimes.

      2. Users mustn’t enter any private info in the llm.

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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    So whats the issue here? Ohh no my private documents are in plain text on my private computer fucking morons.

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    There really wasn’t an expectation of privacy with this. This is not a surprise.

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    This is why Apple partnered with them. To keep an eye on them.

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      deleted by creator

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      Yea… and absolutely not to pump those stock prices.

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