How To Keep AI Chats Private, Even If You Whisper About Crypto Trades
AI users need to rethink private conversations.
A U.S. federal judge forced OpenAI to preserve chat logs they had been routinely deleting, issuing a court order in May that reveals something most users never consider. Every conversation with ChatGPT gets logged, stored, and in some cases destroyed according to what the company calls their “default policy.”
This news should force a rethink of an uncomfortable truth about today’s artificial intelligence landscape. These large language models – AI systems trained on vast amounts of text to generate human-like responses – represent surveillance infrastructure that we have not yet recognized as such, and therefore we are feeding them the most sensitive details of our lives. As…