ChatGPT's macOS desktop app now records your clicks and keystrokes through a feature called Computer History, converting your on-screen activity into a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference to suggest automations and resume unfinished tasks.
The feature is opt-in. Users can exclude specific apps and websites, delete individual entries, and OpenAI's Ari Weinstein confirmed it automatically ignores incognito and private browser tabs. That last detail matters: the boundaries of what gets captured are not fully public yet.
The privacy architecture, the exact data pipeline feeding Codex, and what 'learning how you work' means at a model level are the reasons to read the full Verge piece. This is not a productivity gimmick. It is persistent behavioral surveillance with an off switch.
[READ ORIGINAL →]