ChatGPT on macOS now includes a "Computer History" feature for analyzing user activity
The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS has gained a "Computer History" feature, which uses user actions as training data to create a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference during queries. The tool is designed to learn how the user works, suggest automations, and help resume unfinished tasks, according to The Verge.
Computer History must be enabled manually; it is not activated by default. Users can exclude specific apps and websites from its scope, as well as delete specific entries from the history for more granular control over their data.
OpenAI Product and Engineering Manager Ari Weinstein stated on X that the feature will automatically ignore content opened in incognito mode or in private browser tabs. According to him, Computer History is designed to help ChatGPT better understand a person’s workflow on the computer, complete tasks that have been started, and suggest skills and automations.
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In a demo video, Dominic Kundel, a member of OpenAI’s Developer Experiences team, showed how the app finds the most recently edited document, checks whether it was shared with others via Slack, and prepares a summary of the user’s morning activity.
The feature has been compared to Microsoft’s Windows Recall. At the same time, OpenAI states that Computer History does not record images, videos, or audio, but instead relies on so-called “events.”
