This paper catalogs recoverable forensic traces left by the ChatGPT Windows desktop app, including chat prompts in RAM, registry entries, disk files, network endpoints, and export metadata, and shows they can survive app deletion on an unencrypted test machine.
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Digital Forensic Investigation of the ChatGPT Windows Application
This paper catalogs recoverable forensic traces left by the ChatGPT Windows desktop app, including chat prompts in RAM, registry entries, disk files, network endpoints, and export metadata, and shows they can survive app deletion on an unencrypted test machine.