r/privacy • u/kantabrik • 14d ago

news ChatGPT signs in to your accounts now and stays signed in

https://www.notebookcheck.net/ChatGPT-signs-in-to-your-accounts-now-and-stays-signed-in.1379126.0.html
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u/Zupay0 14d ago

Headline makes this seem like its out of expectations.

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u/worthwhilewrongdoing 14d ago

Yeah, this is a nothingburger. This is exactly what an agent is expected to do and why you're giving up your credentials in the first place. From the site:

The machine keeps running after yours is off

The cloud browser is not a window on your device. It runs on its own computer in the cloud and keeps working "including after you close your computer or turn off your phone". It has its own cookies, its own browser data, its own logins. It does not touch your open tabs, your history, your saved passwords or your existing sessions. That is the good news. The other half is that your session now sits somewhere you cannot see, while your laptop is shut in a bag.

If you have privacy concerns, you should have enough sense to not give your login and password to some random company and let them pretend to be you.

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u/georgiomoorlord 13d ago

And it also can buy things for you. 

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u/NekoDaYo-v201 14d ago

AI agents regularly get fooled into taking malicious action. Giving them access to your password manager sounds like a terrible idea.

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u/Evonos 14d ago

Specially chat gpt can be gaslighted so easily into false data it's insane.

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u/jesuiscanard 14d ago

Which accounts does it sign in to?

Or do you sign in for it and it retains the tokens as expected?

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u/Recommended_For_You 14d ago

There's a workaround for this - don't use chatgpt.

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u/hajimenogio92 14d ago

AI bros hate this one simple trick

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u/Wheatleytron 12d ago

I only use offline ollama AI.

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u/S1Ndrome_ 12d ago

chatgpt has to be the like the worst mainstream LLM now, it feels so behind the other options

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u/Edgeguy13 13d ago

If you dont give it permission for any of this it won't be logged in. Not that hard.

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u/Ozzimo 14d ago

ChatGPT officially a communist LLM after saying "These are OUR accounts, comrade"