THE CLAIM. Computer History, now in the ChatGPT macOS app, lets ChatGPT learn from everything you do on your computer, opt-in, screenshot-free, with a timeline you can inspect and delete.

THE CHECK. the mechanism records clicks, typing, keyboard shortcuts, and app switches through macOS accessibility features, which captures the content of what you type, a denser surveillance stream than pictures of your screen. Events sit on the Mac for up to 48 hours, then get processed on OpenAI's servers into memories under a non-retention, no-training promise, and land as plain-text files on disk. OpenAI's own documentation warns the feature raises prompt-injection risk and advises pausing collection around other people without their consent. The EEA, UK, and Switzerland are excluded at launch. This same app shipped its chat history in unencrypted plain text in 2024 until a researcher went public.