Comment by Groxx

>This attack occurs when any untrusted data source (e.g., from an imported sheet or ChatGPT connector) manipulates ChatGPT to run an attacker-controlled external script, which executes leveraging permissions the user has granted to the ChatGPT for Google Sheets extension.

So... does this imply "requires permission to run scripts without approval"? Or is that something that it can always do?

>Note: ChatGPT for Google Sheets has a setting called ‘Apply edits automatically’ that determines when human approvals are required before an agentic action completes. However, this attack succeeds even when the user has explicitly disabled automatic edits.

Yeah, that makes sense, it's not editing the sheet. But surely running a script with access to files and the internet is also a permission...?

And that sidebar scenario: does that mean the chatgpt extension for Excel can make arbitrary interact-able Excel UI changes that looks like any other extension UI? That seems insane if so, unless there's a super duper scary permission it's hiding behind. And it's still insane after that.

I mean, this is all par for the course for "AI" "security", but what