How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
WIRED guide examines AI chatbot privacy risks and zero-data-retention caveats, highlighting Moxie Marlinspike's cryptographically private Confer chatbot.
The article details how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini default to storing highly personal conversations that can be shared, used for training, or obtained via legal process. Enterprise zero-data-retention contracts from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google delete records after processing but carry exceptions: Anthropic excludes Mythos-class models like Fable 5.1, OpenAI's Private Safety Processing analyzes activity before deletion, and Google logs sanitized prompts. Moxie Marlinspike's new Confer chatbot uses cryptography to prevent its own servers from logging conversations, unlike policy-based promises such as Proton's Lumo. Consumer options generally offer weaker privacy guarantees than enterprise ZDR.