How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

AI chatbots have become places where people share deeply personal information, but most popular models store these conversations with minimal privacy protections and may share or sell the data, hand it over in lawsuits, or use it to train future AI systems. A new generation of AI services is attempting to address this vulnerability through different approaches: some promise not to log conversations as a policy, others use proxies to limit data collection, and a few use cryptography to technically prevent even the service itself from accessing user conversations. Enterprise-level zero data retention policies exist for paid accounts with major AI providers, though these come with significant exceptions and limitations. For most users without corporate contracts, privacy protection relies on either trusting a company's policy promises or using alternative services that claim not to store conversation data.