Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.
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 –
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The llm’s responses aren’t always based on facts. It can say wrong info sometimes.
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Users mustn’t enter any private info in the llm.
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So many apps use sqlite or json files for storage without encryption; this doesn’t seem like much of a discovery.
In any case, don’t share PII or any of your deepest, darkest secrets with it.
Apple has been running ad campaigns about how “Safari is a private browser” lately. The irony of screwing this up, when they even sandbox your Downloads folderI’m an idiotHow is that related to OpenAI’s app? It’s not an Apple product.
Oh I’m an idiot. Thought this was an official MacOS app.
This is why Apple partnered with them. To keep an eye on them.
Yea… and absolutely not to pump those stock prices.
Why do you think only one of those can be true?
Why would apple care about the privacy implications of openAI? No one will blame Apple for privacy concerns arising because of them.
Now that OpenAI’s technology is integrated all the way across Apple’s flagship software and flagship devices, I guarantee you people will blame Apple if OpenAI fumbles privacy even if just on their end.
I’ve been hearing mixed reactions to Apple choosing OpenAI, because of recent drama and because of Sam Altman specifically. To me, it feels like a “keep your enemies closer” decision on Apple’s part because while the company sucks, they do have a competitive (potentially superior) service at the moment.
And Apple has jack without some kind of partnership.
