OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging
14-08-2026 02:27 via theregister.com

OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging

If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt injection, then OpenAI has something for you. It's called Computer History, an opt-in way to record your computer interactions across apps and websites as memories organized on a timeline. Why would you want to do so? Maybe you found Chronicle, the predecessor of Computer History which compiled similar histories using screenshots, a bit too intrusi
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