ChatGPT Work Can Now Log Into Websites and Handle Tasks While You Walk Away

Summary

ChatGPT Work’s built-in browser can now authenticate on websites that require a login, then continue working on your behalf while you step away. When a task hits a sign-in screen, ChatGPT surfaces it for your credentials, and then Work picks the task back up. Password managers are supported. OpenAI says the model never sees or stores your username or password. Confirmation is required before any consequential action, like completing a payment or submitting a form. Example tasks now in scope: booking a DMV appointment, filling out government forms, signing up for utilities at a new address. Available on Plus and Pro plans, on the web and mobile.

Why it matters

Authenticated web tasks have been the hard limit for AI agents. Most tools can read a web page, but they stop the moment a site requires a login. ChatGPT Work crossing that threshold opens up a category of errands that previously required you to be at the keyboard the whole time. The confirmation safeguard before irreversible actions is what makes this workable rather than worrying.

HTD Says

ChatGPT Work gained the ability to log into websites on your behalf and complete tasks while you step away, with one safeguard that matters: it always stops and asks before doing anything that costs money or cannot be undone. This is yet another example of a “convenience” feature that makes us wonder why it wasn’t available sooner.

OpenAI does flat-out say that user and password information is not stored or used for training. Always take this with a grain of salt. And I believe you can also use password managers, supposedly.

Regardless, assuming this also works in Codex, this will save me a lot of frustration when a site I’m working on locally times out and requires me, the human, to log back in.

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OpenAI Release Notes