How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here's how you can protect yourself. If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better honeypot than an AI chatbot . OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and their countless smaller competitors have become therapists, sounding boards, and virtual confession booths for millions of people around the world. Almost all of those AI models are set by default to collect and store that highly private data with, in many cases, no restrictions on how it's shared or sold, used to further train the tools, or handed over to any lawsuit plaintiff or law enforcement agency that demands it through a legal process.