Are you talking about macOS Sequoia? There will be not "deep integration" of ChagtGPT, in fact you get prompted when system wants to "outsource" a request to ChatGPT and you can refuse it.
Did you watch the freaking keynote??!! It’s everywhere and it goes off device in more cases than just ChatGPT. An opt in human in the flow UX is exactly how iTerm worked anyway, you have to check a box and actively send context to OpenAI and it’s driven off user action not some silent BG process. And it uses your token instead Apple’s enterprise account so better privacy (not that Apple hasn’t done good privacy things).
And every single one of those features can be hard, locked-down disabled with a simple configuration profile. They can all be unequivocally disabled. iTerms preferences could also be managed this way, since it hooks into cfprefsd and I could make an MCX profile to set “OpenAIIntegrationEnabled” to FALSE for the prefs domain “com.whateverIterms.bundleIDis”. Unequivocal. It’s off.
You might say that I am not a bright man, and I might agree, but the way the AI integration presented in 3.5.0 was not unequivocal. Literally nothing said “this feature is disabled unless you put an API key in”. It assumed a knowledge and understanding of how this shit works, one that I do t have because I have no interest in slop portals in any of my applications, let alone one in my terminal. Instead of a checkbox for “Enable/Disable”, one I could have left set to disabled and gone about my day, I got an empty text box for an API key. So what, does it attempt to make a network call to Sam Altman’s slop machine every time I hit enter, only to fail without an API key? YeAh bUt Go rEaD tHe sOuRCE, sure, but I’ve been using iTerm since Tiger without a need to go read the source (nor become a terminal application developer in five minutes so I could understand it) and had other shit to do that day.
Mind you, OpenAI.com is NXDOMAINed on my DNS servers at home, so I didnt give a shit either way when I upgraded to 3.5.0.
People’s reactions and comments to the dev were wrong, cruel, and uncalled for, but that doesn’t mean the feature couldn’t have been introduced and presented in a way more sensitive to people’s concerns about AI, right or wrong, real or fake. And sure, the dev has every right to do whatever they want with their open source project. They don’t owe us any emotional intelligence or respect or anything, but they also dont have a right to expect everyone to be like, totally cool and vibin with whatever they do. That doesn’t mean “everyone will put up with whatever” (which is not the same as “everyone is entitled to the project”). If the dev removed all themes except for neon pink on neon green and forced your font to be Comic Sans, would the dev be entitled to do that? Sure! It’s not illegal and they don’t owe anyone anything. Would users be entitled to go “uhh, what the fuck?” Sure! It’s not illegal and they don’t owe anyone anything! It only gets gross when people start flinging insults.
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You might say that I am not a bright man, and I might agree, but the way the AI integration presented in 3.5.0 was not unequivocal. Literally nothing said “this feature is disabled unless you put an API key in”. It assumed a knowledge and understanding of how this shit works, one that I do t have because I have no interest in slop portals in any of my applications, let alone one in my terminal. Instead of a checkbox for “Enable/Disable”, one I could have left set to disabled and gone about my day, I got an empty text box for an API key. So what, does it attempt to make a network call to Sam Altman’s slop machine every time I hit enter, only to fail without an API key? YeAh bUt Go rEaD tHe sOuRCE, sure, but I’ve been using iTerm since Tiger without a need to go read the source (nor become a terminal application developer in five minutes so I could understand it) and had other shit to do that day.
Mind you, OpenAI.com is NXDOMAINed on my DNS servers at home, so I didnt give a shit either way when I upgraded to 3.5.0.
People’s reactions and comments to the dev were wrong, cruel, and uncalled for, but that doesn’t mean the feature couldn’t have been introduced and presented in a way more sensitive to people’s concerns about AI, right or wrong, real or fake. And sure, the dev has every right to do whatever they want with their open source project. They don’t owe us any emotional intelligence or respect or anything, but they also dont have a right to expect everyone to be like, totally cool and vibin with whatever they do. That doesn’t mean “everyone will put up with whatever” (which is not the same as “everyone is entitled to the project”). If the dev removed all themes except for neon pink on neon green and forced your font to be Comic Sans, would the dev be entitled to do that? Sure! It’s not illegal and they don’t owe anyone anything. Would users be entitled to go “uhh, what the fuck?” Sure! It’s not illegal and they don’t owe anyone anything! It only gets gross when people start flinging insults.