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Worth mentioning that if you are in a corporate environment, running a service that sends arbitrary desktop screenshots to a 3rd party cloud service is going to run afoul of pretty much every security and regulatory control in existence



I assume that anyone capable of cloning the app, starting the it on their machine and obtaining + adding an OpenAI API key understands that some data is being sent offsite -- and will be aware of their corporate policies. I think that's a fair assumption.


that's a fair assumption. feels like swiftcoder is just trying to gotcha


You're telling me... the cloud... is other people's computers?!


The control for that is endpoints should be locked down to prevent install of non approved apps. Any org under regulatory controls would have some variation of that. Safe to assume an orgs users are stupid or nefarious and build defences accordingly.


This is exactly why in https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt we have implemented three separate PII scrubbing providers.

Congrats to the op on shipping!


True, but also true of other screen capture utilities that send data to the cloud. Your PSA is true, but hardly unique to this little utility. And probably not surprising to the intended audience.




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