[HN Gopher] OpenAI releases ChatGPT on your desktop for macOS
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       OpenAI releases ChatGPT on your desktop for macOS
        
       Author : s-macke
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-06-25 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | nicce wrote:
       | Hopefully it is native application rather than another Webview or
       | Electron-based. There are already good ones.
        
       | pizza wrote:
       | Not on Intel Macs
        
         | ryandvm wrote:
         | This is wild. Why exactly does an app that is a thin wrapper
         | over some APIs require Apple silicon?
        
           | yoav wrote:
           | The task to create a build for intel macs and a page to
           | decide which file to download probably just didn't get
           | prioritized in the scrum meeting.
        
             | wkat4242 wrote:
             | It's really bad though with OpenAI. I don't log in to
             | Google play on my android phone and their login process in
             | their app is completely broken. It constantly opens Google
             | play without even asking (without me pressing the button
             | for it). And won't let me go back to the app and press the
             | login with email button. They really don't care about the
             | 1%.
        
       | yandie wrote:
       | This explains the Multi acquisition.
        
       | jameshart wrote:
       | 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...
        
         | wkat4242 wrote:
         | Well it's quite a lot ahead of Apple intelligence if you're not
         | in the US. In Europe it probably won't even come this year. So
         | it's not a bad thing they're releasing this.
         | 
         | I won't use it as I moved away from Mac and I have a local AI
         | server now. But for many this will be super handy
        
       | Moncefmd wrote:
       | 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."
        
         | yoav wrote:
         | Can and should.
         | 
         | You could just wait for the next macos for this exact
         | functionality but you get to control what openAI sees.
        
       | threatofrain wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | copperx wrote:
         | Which one are you talking about?
        
         | brailsafe wrote:
         | What market would that be? Consumer use of a mildly helpful
         | text constructor? Most people only have at-best a cursory sense
         | of what a model is or what ChatGPT does, and aren't swapping
         | APIs or whatever. Even among technical people I'd wager it's
         | only a tiny minority of people who are doing anything like
         | that.
        
       | darkteflon wrote:
       | Sonoma-only, unfortunately.
        
       | radicality wrote:
       | So what is new now? I remember this was available right after the
       | ChatGPT4o livestream and I downloaded it then.
        
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