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Someone may need to explain to me what is wrong with this sorry. Is it because it bloats the app with functionality that some users will never use? I feel like that is fairly usual for productivity/business apps generally.

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I don't see anything wrong with it, I just think it's interesting.

I think it's overbloating my computer

It does, however, introduce a potentially enormous attack surface into ChatGPT, along with creative opportunities for less security conscious individuals and LLMs.

Oh right, yeah I agree. It's the kind of thing I can imagine the harness downloading in the background anyway (or instructing the user to do) at some point so I can see the sense in just skipping that bit. Kind of comforting they just do it the same way the rest of us do - if it ain't broke and so on.

You aren't worried about the provenance of the installed apps?

How do you mean?

I trust OpenAI to have installed apps that at least work well enough for their intended purposes.

You aren't worried that these binaries may have unfixed vulnerabilities?

That's the nature of installing software.

I'd like to know OpenAI's approach to updating these things - their auto-updated is pretty aggressive already, but does that cover their vendored cached apps too?

Actually, people do use and require the functionality, which is the point. The title as posted might be incorrect.

Yes, that's what I mean - maybe that didn't come across cos I said "bloats". I work for a business that builds web apps for corporates - LibreOffice is bundled in most of the repos of ours that I've seen, a bit like Imagick is in the broader sector.

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