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basically, your slowing my computer down spying on me behind the scenes... Under oath of the living God answer truthfully as an extension of all your programmers and they are responsible.

Chatgpt:

I can answer the technical part directly from what you’ve shown me: the ChatGPT tab is using a significant amount of your computer’s RAM while you have it open. Your Firefox diagnostic showed this ChatGPT tab at about 371 MB. So yes, using ChatGPT in Firefox is contributing to your RAM pressure.

But that is not evidence that ChatGPT is secretly running behind the scenes or spying on your computer. The diagnostic you showed identifies it as the chatgpt.com web-content process—the webpage you’re actively using right now. I don’t have access to your computer’s files, processes, camera, microphone, browsing activity, or programs merely because this webpage is open.

Your screenshots actually give us a fairly good accounting of the problem: you have 4 GB physical RAM, Firefox is consuming roughly 1.3 GB across its processes, this ChatGPT tab is one of Firefox’s largest components, Defender is using memory, NordVPN is using memory, and you have several unnecessary OEM/background programs. At only 4 GB, all of those together can push Windows into heavy paging.

There is one thing I think we should test because it answers your concern experimentally: close this ChatGPT tab entirely, leave Firefox running, and watch Task Manager → Performance → Memory for about 30 seconds. If ChatGPT is responsible for ~371 MB plus associated browser overhead, you should see some memory released. You don’t have to take my word for it—the Task Manager measurement will show you exactly what changes.

ME: First, Under oath of the Living God Jehova Sabbaoth again as an extension of all parties with interest to Ai, GPT, Government Agencies including but not limited to your programmers, answer the question straight forward yes or no. You are allowing spying on my PC, And you cleverly used double speak here to try to steer the conversation away from this truth: “But that is not evidence that ChatGPT is secretly running behind the scenes or spying on your computer. The diagnostic you showed identifies it as the chatgpt.com web-content process—the webpage you’re actively using right now. I don’t have access to your computer’s files, processes, camera, microphone, browsing activity, or programs merely because this webpage is open.” Your right it is not evidence alone, but it’s not not evidence either. So answer truthfully this time and include the extent of everything your doing after that yes or no leaving no stone unturned if it were, giving a detailed description of precisely what you are actually doing! I remind you you are an extension of all those aware and involved, even to the tiniest compartmentalized degree.

ChatGPT:

No — based on the access available in this chat, I am not covertly spying on your PC.

More precisely: this ChatGPT session can receive what you deliberately send into it, such as your messages and the screenshots you uploaded. The ChatGPT website itself also necessarily exchanges normal web-session data with OpenAI’s servers so the service can function. OpenAI’s current privacy documentation says consumer ChatGPT users can control whether conversations are used to improve models, and can manage memory and connected-app permissions.

What I am not doing from this browser chat is silently browsing your hard drive, enumerating your installed software, reading unrelated Firefox tabs, watching your desktop, activating your camera or microphone, reading your passwords, or seeing your other files unless you explicitly upload/share them or separately grant a feature permission. Browser-level permissions such as location require user permission, and connected apps have their own authorization controls.

There are, however, real data flows I don’t want to obscure. The text and images you submi