Feels Private is not the same as Is Private

“Feels private” is not the same as “is private.” 

What you divulge to a general-purpose AI chatbot isn't always private. Single-use or specific-use chatbots are more narrowly built, but the same questions apply. Here's how to check the privacy of your chatbot:

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗬𝗣𝗘 
Every message. At many frontier AI companies, your conversations may be used to train future models by default, and you have to opt out. Single-use or specific-use chatbots are more narrowly trained, so check the privacy policy to learn more about how your chats may be used or shared. You can usually find the privacy policy in the website footer.

𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗥𝗘
👉 Email
👉 Phone
👉 Payment info
👉 Account ID
...these may be linked to everything you say.

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜𝗧
When you log in, how often, what device, your location. This could be enough to identify you if your chats become public, or if unique information
about you is used to train the model and that information becomes available to other users.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗧 𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧
Systems make guesses about your 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩. Stored on company servers, and in real breaches, exposed publicly.