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ChatGPT's new "Computer History" feature represents a significant shift toward local context-awareness, allowing the model to reference user activity timelines for automation suggestions without capturing screenshots or audio data. While framed as an opt-in privacy improvement over competitors like Windows Recall, this development highlights evolving strategies in how large language models access and utilize personal workflow patterns directly on desktop environments.
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature is opt in, rather than opt out, and you can exclude certain apps and websites from Computer History, and you can delete entries if you want finer-grained control. Ari Weinstein, Product and Engineering manager at OpenAI, said on X that Computer History will automatically ignore content in incognito or private browser tab … Read the full story at The Verge.
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