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OpenAI releases ChatGPT on your desktop for macOS

by s-macke on 6/25/24, 7:27 PM with 20 comments

  • by Moncefmd on 6/25/24, 7:51 PM

    The product works pretty well and already feels more natural to use than the web UI of ChatGPT.

    This landing page is a bit barebones for my taste though. I would've loved to know about what data gets locally processed, privacy assurance, and what gets sent to OpenAI. A lot of bad things can be implied from the two three sentences like: "Chat about email, screenshots, files, and anything on your screen."

  • by jameshart on 6/25/24, 7:46 PM

    Seems a little opportunistic. Trying to get ahead of the Apple Intelligence launch and capture some market share (and data) before the door closes and they wind up trapped as a feature within apple’s walled AI garden?

    Cynically, a nonzero number of people will probably download and install this thinking it’s the way you install the OpenAI collaboration Apple announced recently…

  • by FractalHQ on 6/27/24, 6:45 PM

    The app is… fine I guess. I would have preferred a web view because this is just the web app with less features. Unlike the browser, this native app isn’t easily extended / customized.

    If native app means I get an uglier ui with less features that I can’t easily hack on, why would I ever want that?

    I will never understand the glorification of native apps.

  • by radicality on 6/25/24, 10:33 PM

    So what is new now? I remember this was available right after the ChatGPT4o livestream and I downloaded it then.

  • by nicce on 6/25/24, 7:44 PM

    Hopefully it is native application rather than another Webview or Electron-based. There are already good ones.

  • by threatofrain on 6/25/24, 8:10 PM

    Too late. The market is already moving towards a chat GUI that can integrate with many models and API's. Strange how OpenAI was so slow on this.

  • by yandie on 6/25/24, 7:46 PM

    This explains the Multi acquisition.

  • by darkteflon on 6/25/24, 9:58 PM

    Sonoma-only, unfortunately.

  • by pizza on 6/25/24, 7:46 PM

    Not on Intel Macs