AI Data Privacy Evaluation Ranks Meta, Google, Microsoft at the Bottom

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In general, using AI platforms through web browsers with strong privacy protections is preferable to using mobile apps.

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tl;dr:

Avoid: Meta AI, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Deepseek
Prefer: Mistral, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude (all in the browser, not app!)

I suspect DuckDuckGo AI is a relatively privacy-respecting option, though it only offers older chat models.

I also like Brave Leo and Perplexity specifically for web searches and research tasks - those weren’t tested unfortunately.

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I should actually bookmark this as I’m trying to figure out how to do the whole Encrypted AI
so far my idea is to have a:
client → relay → server model with assymetric encryption left to right and the vice versa. With as much transparency as possible I think this method may help for:
a. AI Server will only know that a encrypted content using their public key came from that public relay
b. Relay doesn’t know the content (because it is encrypted using the top to bottom encryption model where relay gives both their public key and the AI’s public key which you encrypt using AI’s then the relay’s in client).

If there’s anything I realized from this, it’s that it can be a bit hard to do zero trust, In the end AI needs to know what you typed in but cannot be at the cost of knowing who. but it’ll be ensured that if you do save history it’ll be on device like signal and figure out encrypted backup later.

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Best is to use 3rd party client and access all models of any company: https://nano-gpt.com/

Many benefits:

  1. Anonymous & also private (not trained on user data). Registration is optional, one can pay with crypto too.
  2. Very low price (“pay-per-prompt”)
  3. Highest quality on the market - all models of all companies are available. Even models which would cost 200 $/month are available to use for less.
  4. User data is independent from specific company (and conversation history stays locally on device and are not saved on their servers)
  5. Images, audio, video, web search… All features are available and every week I see they release new features.

Nano GPT wrote interesting article about similar technology, they have some models confidential Trusted Execution Environments & Confidential AI on NanoGPT