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ChatGPT’s macOS app can now remember your computer activity
ChatGPT’s macOS app now offers opt-in Computer History, which tracks activity events to suggest automations and resume unfinished tasks.
ChatGPT’s macOS desktop app can now remember your clicks and keystrokes through an opt-in feature called Computer History. According to The Verge, the data can help ChatGPT learn how you work, suggest automations, and resume tasks you left unfinished.
Computer History builds a timeline of your activity that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. In a demonstration, OpenAI’s Dominik Kundel had the app find the last document he edited, check whether it had been shared through Slack, and summarize how he spent his morning.
The feature is opt-in, not enabled by default. Users can exclude specific apps and websites, delete timeline entries, and rely on an automatic exclusion for content in incognito or private browser tabs, according to OpenAI product and engineering manager Ari Weinstein.
OpenAI says Computer History differs from Microsoft’s Windows Recall in one significant technical respect: it does not capture screenshots, images, videos, or audio. Instead, it records “events” describing activity on the computer.
That distinction does not eliminate the privacy implications. The feature still creates a searchable record of what users do across apps and websites, while OpenAI has not detailed in the supplied report how long those event records are retained or how they are protected.