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What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect? (lemmy.ml)

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A chart titled "What Kind of Data Do AI Chatbots Collect?" lists and compares seven AI chatbots—Gemini, Claude, CoPilot, Deepseek, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok—based on the types and number of data points they collect as of February 2025. The categories of data include: Contact Info, Location, Contacts, User Content, History, Identifiers, Diagnostics, Usage Data, Purchases, Other Data.

Gemini: Collects all 10 data types; highest total at 22 data points
Claude: Collects 7 types; 13 data points
CoPilot: Collects 7 types; 12 data points
Deepseek: Collects 6 types; 11 data points
ChatGPT: Collects 6 types; 10 data points
Perplexity: Collects 6 types; 10 data points
Grok: Collects 4 types; 7 data points

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[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Or you could use Deepseek's workaround and run it locally. You know, open source and all.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago

Is there away to fake all the data they try to collect?

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Pretty sure this is what they scrape from your device if you install their app. I dont know how else they would get access to contacts and location and stuff. So yeah you can just run it on a virtual android device and feed it garbage data, but i assume the app or their backend will detect that and throw out your data.

[-] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

How about if I only use the web version?

[-] nieminen@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Root, install xprivacy (or xprivacylua if your phone isn't 10 years old).

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[-] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Just clarifying, does this report mean it's collected while a user is using the tools, or data that is generally scraped from the internet?

[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

They're talking about what is being recorded while the user is using the tools (your prompts, RAG data, etc.)

[-] quantum_faun@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

Does that include generated responses?

[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

Nobody knows! There's no specific disclosure that I'm aware of (in the US at least), and even if there was I wouldn't trust any of these guys to tell the truth about it anyway.

As always, don't do anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want the rest of the world to find out about :)

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[-] lib1@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I’m curious what data t3chat collects. They support all the models and I’m pretty sure they use Sentry and Stripe, but beyond that, who knows?

[-] will_a113@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Anthropic and OpenAPI both have options that let you use their API without training the system on your data (not sure if the others do as well), so if t3chat is simply using the API it may be that they themselves are collecting your inputs (or not, you'd have to check the TOS), but maybe their backend model providers are not. Or, who knows, they could all be lying too.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Aren't they supposed to collect data?

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