Opinion: The ChatGPT iPhone app from OpenAI has a glaring privacy problem – the company is reading your conversations

The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the US on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. — AP

On May 18, OpenAI released an iOS app for ChatGPT and it quickly became the most popular free app in the App Store.

That’s not surprising considering some reports suggest ChatGPT had more than 100 million users in January – just two months after it launched. That would make it the fastest-growing technology product of all time.