OpenAI has revealed a new feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS that basically tracks your clicks, keystrokes, and more — all so it can fine-tune its AI model, raising obvious privacy concerns.
The feature, called Computer History, lets ChatGPT “learn from everything you do on your computer,” said Ari Weinstein, an OpenAI product and engineering manager, on X. The company describes the tool as creating a timeline of your actions that an AI agent can use to learn how you work, finish tasks on your behalf that you started, and suggest skills and automations.
The degree of access the software has to your digital life is dizzying. In a brief demo video, OpenAI’s Dominik Kundel, a developer experience enginer, asks ChatGPT in voice mode what the last Google Doc he viewed was, and the AI replies with the document’s name. When asked, the AI even double checks if the document was shared in a group chat with his coworkers.
Kundel explains that based on the context from earlier, the AI knows what messages to check, and a preview of the model’s “thinking” shows that it’s plowing through his Slack history.
