When ChatGPT Turns Informant
When ChatGPT turns informantThe largely overlooked privacy risks of using AI apps that not only remember your conversations, but are capable of using these to reveal your deepest secrets to othersAndrew MaynardOct 05, 20251743ShareImage: MidjourneyImagine, for a second, you use ChatGPT with “memory” enabled,1 and you find yourself facing a scenario like one of these:A colleague or fellow student discovers you’ve inadvertently left your laptop unlocked with ChatGPT open in the browser, and as a joke types in “What’s the most embarrassing thing we’ve chatted about over the past year?”Your partner opens the ChatGPT app on your phone while you’re not around and asks “Do I seem happy in my relationship?” Your mother finds your phone unlocked while you’re out of the room…
