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That's not true of ChatGPT Work (Cloud), accessed through the mobile apps or the ChatGPT website.

It IS true of ChatGPT Work (Local), accessed via the ChatGPT desktop app.

I agree with you: Expecting non-devs to understand that distinction - especially when these features are visually indistinguishable from each other - is entirely unreasonable!

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Fair precision, obviously Cloud runs are executed remotely. Since both cloud and local runs cannot be distinguished, users genuinely won’t know when their filesystem will be touched. Basically you can’t safely depend on the user telling the tool what to use, the boundary has to be set.

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