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AI chatbots draw fresh privacy warnings as Wired publishes protection guide

Commentators and outlets warn that ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini store deeply personal user data with few restrictions, prompting new advice on safer use.

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What to know

  • OpenAI's own analysis found 73% of 1.1 million sampled ChatGPT messages were not work-related, spanning personal advice, health, and self-expression topics.
  • Chat logs from AI services are already being used as evidence in criminal cases, including a murder investigation and a vandalism case.
  • Major chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) store conversations by default with few restrictions on sharing, training use, or legal disclosure.
  • A small set of privacy-focused alternatives, such as Moxie Marlinspike's Confer, use cryptography to prevent the service itself from accessing user conversations.

“Those same things I was concerned about with messaging are happening in the AI space, but several orders of magnitude more significantly. People are integrating AI into their personal lives. They talk with it about their deepest insecurities, their finances, their health, their relationships.”

Moxie Marlinspike, Signal creator, Confer founder · Wired ↗ · Sep 21

Rikki Schlott NY Post opinion columnistAlex KarpAlex Karp Palantir CEOMatt Green Johns Hopkins computer science professorMoxie MarlinspikeMoxie Marlinspike Signal creator, founder of Confer

AI chatbots draw fresh privacy warnings as Wired publishes protection guide
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  1. 3

    Wired publishes guide to using AI chatbots with privacy intact

    Wired's Andy Greenberg details how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini store sensitive conversations by default with little restriction on sharing, training use, or legal disclosure, and surveys privacy-focused alternatives including Moxie Marlinspike's encrypted chatbot Confer, launched earlier in 2026.

    “You have this intelligent thing staring back at you, and you're basically telling it, one question at a time, every possible thing there is to know about your life…”
    — Matt Green
    1. 2 outlets How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

      first by Mastodon, 1d ago · also Wired

    • couts.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

      NEW: If you wanted to design a system for monetizing people’s secrets, you’d be hard pressed to make something better than an AI chatbot. Here’s how to use these tools without giving up the intimate details of you life. @agreenberg.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy reports: www.wired.com/story/how-to... How to Use AI With Your Privac...

      couts.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gyMastodon1d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    • agreenberg@infosec.exchange

      Using AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive and intimate thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement. So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. https://www. wired.com/story/how-to-use-ai- with-your-privacy-intact/

      agreenberg@infosec.exchangeMastodon1d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    ABC News airs segment questioning AI chatbot privacy

    ABC News published a video segment and a GMA article asking how private conversations with AI chatbots really are and offering tips to keep personal information secure.

    • AI chatbots and privacy: How to keep personal info secure https:// abcnews.com/GMA/News/ai-chatbo ts-privacy-personal-info-secure/story?id=136614308&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Lifestyle @ lifestyle-abc

      abc@flipboard.comMastodon2d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    • How private are your conversations with AI chatbots? https:// abcnews.com/video/136619298/?u tm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Technology @ technology-thenewsdesk

      thenewsdesk@flipboard.comMastodon2d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    NY Post opinion warns AI chatbots outstrip social media on data collection

    Columnist Rikki Schlott argues AI companies now hold more intensely personal data than social platforms ever did, citing OpenAI's internal analysis of 1.1 million messages and cases where chat logs were used as evidence in criminal investigations.

    “Who owns the data? Where is it cached? Are the prompts secure?”
    — Alex Karp
    1. 1 outlet Forget data privacy, AI chatbots already know more than your own mother

      first by NY Post, 8d ago

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