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ChatGPT for Mac Can Now Read Your Apple Notes – Here's How
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Well, now you're safe.
And you can sideload Fortnite!
ChatGPT doing Siri job because Siri cannot perform these simple task
How is the permission for the ChatGPT app on Mac to access notes enforced? There is no privacy setting for Notes in the system settings. Are we supposed to trust the ChatGPT app to restrict itself? If so, how do we know it hasn't accessed notes and other personal data on the Mac all along?
I'd feel better if ChatGPT was a sandboxed app from the app store ...
I'd feel better if ChatGPT was a sandboxed app from the app store ...
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Hopefully there are no privacy issues. If not, this should be really useful. Either way I will download the ChatGPT app and give it a try.
I strongly suspect that’s Apples “look what the nasty EU made us do” long-game starting to pan-out.
What makes it different from any other app in that context though?
Maybe a few of you posters need to read the article. Did you read the part that this only works for ChatGPT PAID subscriptions. So if you are an AI luddite you have nothing to worry about. In fact if you haven’t enabled AI you have even less to worry about.
So I don’t understand the blathering that is going on. Can you?
So I don’t understand the blathering that is going on. Can you?
Sandboxed Mac apps cannot access anything outside their sandbox without explicit permission by the user. Most apps that are manually installed are less restricted. In that regard ChatGPT isn't different, but for me personally AI apps are always more "suspicious" due to their incentives to use personal data for training purposes. Same goes for apps from advertising companies like Google, BTW.
Not sure what that has to do with anything. I have a subscription because I find ChatGPT useful, but I can still be suspicious if the native Mac app starts hoovering up data from other apps on my computer. For now I only use the web app which does not have this issue.
I and my wife are using release version of MacOS 18.2 on two two M4 Max MBPro laptops and three M series desk top computers. We also have two v7 iPad minis, two iPhone 16 Pro Max cellphones and a M4 iPad Pro running the latest fully released operating systems.
I turned off Apple Intelligence in the Apple Intelligence & Siri section. In the Privacy & Security section, I turned off the Apple Intelligence Report.
I will wait until MacOS 15.4 comes out to see if things are working properly with Apple AI.
I did similar disabling in the "I" devices and will wait for the last version of their software to see if there is a stable version of AI.
At this point in time, the public readings suggest the AI beta software could be more susceptible to releasing my personal information. There is nothing in the AI stuff that we need or would use now.
Apple's AI is still maybe half baked but we will await the finished cake.
I turned off Apple Intelligence in the Apple Intelligence & Siri section. In the Privacy & Security section, I turned off the Apple Intelligence Report.
I will wait until MacOS 15.4 comes out to see if things are working properly with Apple AI.
I did similar disabling in the "I" devices and will wait for the last version of their software to see if there is a stable version of AI.
At this point in time, the public readings suggest the AI beta software could be more susceptible to releasing my personal information. There is nothing in the AI stuff that we need or would use now.
Apple's AI is still maybe half baked but we will await the finished cake.
You do know that Samsung and Google have no issues with the AI? Also, Samsung and Google introduced the AI for older models soon.
Maybe someday you'll be able to choose an AI, like you choose a search engine. I never use Google, and I'd never allow Sam Altman to have access to my private data. A reason I use Apple products is that I actually, maybe naively, believe they do try to keep my information private. There isn't a single other major corporation I trust in this regard.
No, I didn’t know that. Then, why is Apple taking so long on implementing all this features? Isn’t Google another so-called “gatekeeper”?
Future privacy issues. Sounds crazy to give ai access to personal files
Some people may, because they don't care about their own privacy. Seems to be tghe normal these days, people allowing companies to grab any data they want.
I don't think I would even use Apple notes for anything that is important, I would use a word processor., To be honest, I have never used Apple notes.
Only on Copilot+ machines, and it can be disabled.
Sometimes understanding it makes you fear it more.
It is not Ai as such that I fear, when I was younger, I always liked the idea of being able to talk to a machine to get it to do things, like turn lights on and that sort of thing and I have with Alexa. I also liked the idea of being able to talk to your computer and having it type what you speak, I remember IBM voice type. It had to talk in a robotic way to get it to work and tell it when I needed a new paragraph and a full stop. It was interesting, but soon became a pain to use, I still have a copy here. Dragon was another one that was a bit better.
Then it was built into Windows and other operating systems, but even now in this day and age, it is not great.,
Anyway, as I was typing, it is not the AIO technology that I fear, but the people and companies behind it and what it can be used for. I will be many years before we get proper Ai and machines that may try and take over the world, if it ever could happen., Just unplug them
The other thing is, I don't want AI on my computer
I don't think so. Google Pixel has many more awesome features than iPhone, even the base Pixel model can remove people from photos automatically etc and Google has had Gemini for awhile now.
in my opinion Apple is kind of going downhill or I'm getting old. It just doesn't feel the same Apple as in 2007 when I watched a Keynote of Leopard and of the iPhone.
i always use Duck duck go and even that have some sort of AIm, whihc I disable
I can't imagine any scenario where I would willingly give any third party company access to my Notes. Hell no.
And here’s to the latest and greatest…pencil and paper! Fool proof and will never let you down!
Seriously, reaching the point where humanity needs AI to read their own notes is laziness to the max
Seriously, reaching the point where humanity needs AI to read their own notes is laziness to the max