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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
(arstechnica.com)
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It's something that should be publicised not because OpenAI has promised privacy, but because a lot of people seem to assume it where it has not been offered, and they need to be reminded that they're kind of out to lunch on the issue.
Like, people in companies keep using these things to write reports with privileged information. People need to be informed as gently but alsonas firmly as possible that they're sending this stuff over the internet to an organization that considers everything it can see to be its own.