Keep your AI chats private

Three things decide how private your AI chats are:

1. Training settings. Each app can use your chats to train future models. You can turn that off in under a minute.

2. Safety review. Every major AI company scans chats for serious harm. Turning off training does not turn this off. If a chat is flagged, a person can read it, and in rare cases of a credible threat to others, the company can report it to police.

3. Where the model runs. A cloud chatbot keeps your chats on someone else's servers. A local model on your own computer keeps them on your machine.

My rule: treat cloud AI like email, not a diary. Write what you'd be fine with a stranger reading. For anything you'd never want read, run a model on your own computer.