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How to Update ChatGPT on Mac

How to Update ChatGPT on Mac

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The ChatGPT app for Mac is a fantastic AI tool and LLM that will be a great addition to the workflows of many Mac users, whether you’re extremely tech-savvy or just a novice. One thing that some users have wondered is how to keep the ChatGPT app for Mac up to date and how to manually install updates for ChatGPT when necessary.

ChatGPT updates automatically on Mac, if allowed

By default, ChatGPT tries to keep itself up to date and will alert you when using the app that a new version is available. You can then install the update immediately, ignore it, or install it on the next app restart.

But you can also update ChatGPT manually on Mac, and that’s easy too.

Manually update ChatGPT on Mac

  1. Open ChatGPT on Mac
  2. Open the “ChatGPT” menu and choose “Check for updates”
  3. Check for updates in ChatGPTCheck for updates in ChatGPT

  4. Choose to install the updates now, skip them, or on the next app restart
  5. The ChatGPT update installation is complete and ready to start againThe ChatGPT update installation is complete and ready to start again

Updating ChatGPT for Mac often is important because the app is regularly updated with new features and capabilities, and if you use the tool, be sure to use the latest versions for this purpose (and to make sure its bugs and security issues are fixed as they are found).

So that’s it. It’s quite easy to install ChatGPT updates on Mac, right? It’s just as simple for iPhone and iPad, but on those devices it’s handled through the App Store.

Ironically, Google Search AI provides inaccurate information about updating ChatGPT on Mac

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and Google is busy breaking its own search engine experience in an attempt to overtake ChatGPT with its “Gemini” search AI experience, which is often wildly inaccurate. A new example involves this article, which was sent to us by a reader who couldn’t figure out why ChatGPT wasn’t updating on his Mac. Google Gemini’s suggestion when asked how to update ChatGPT on a Mac was inaccurate and false, instead providing instructions on how to install macOS system software updates – and no, installing MacOS updates will not update ChatGPT.

Google Gemini gives inaccurate answersGoogle Gemini gives inaccurate answers

Consider this yet another warning about trusting the AI ​​results you see in search results, especially now that the AI-generated gibberish is included in search results and is often inaccurate, but will present information as if it were true (this is sometimes also as a hallucination, that Google describes hereas LLMs don’t necessarily know what is true or false, but they will still give a confident answer).

ChatGPT is almost certainly the most well-known chatbot out there, but it’s also probably the best LLM and AI tool, and while there are others, they tend to be less accurate or less capable.

By the way, if you are a fan of ChatGPT, AI and LLM tools, you might get a kick out of it run an LLM like Llama locally on your Macthat allows you to run uncensored models (uncensored in this case simply means without bias, because as weird as it sounds, basically all LLMs are deliberately trained with bias, and that should alarm us all, even those who ‘agree’ ‘ are with the slant and bias at the moment. Do you want your AI information to be accurate, or do you want it to be biased and inaccurate?