A PIN to protect your chats, but only if you remember it
OpenAI’s new feature locks your chats, but forget your PIN and you’re out of luck.
The story
OpenAI allows users to lock chats with a PIN, but forgetting it permanently deletes the content. The feature doesn’t encrypt or isolate chats from OpenAI’s data policies.
Source: fortune.com
Our reading
OpenAI has given users a way to lock chats with a PIN, which is great if you want to keep your secrets safe from prying eyes—but terrible if you’re the type of person who forgets their own birthday. The company’s solution is to make the PIN the only key to your private conversations, and if you lose it, you lose everything. It’s like having a vault that only you can open, but the vault’s only lock is a PIN you might forget while watching a movie. And if you do forget it, you’re not just losing the vault—you’re losing the contents, the keys, and the memory of why you ever thought this was a good idea.
