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What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect? (lemmy.ml)

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A chart titled "What Kind of Data Do AI Chatbots Collect?" lists and compares seven AI chatbots—Gemini, Claude, CoPilot, Deepseek, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok—based on the types and number of data points they collect as of February 2025. The categories of data include: Contact Info, Location, Contacts, User Content, History, Identifiers, Diagnostics, Usage Data, Purchases, Other Data.

Gemini: Collects all 10 data types; highest total at 22 data points
Claude: Collects 7 types; 13 data points
CoPilot: Collects 7 types; 12 data points
Deepseek: Collects 6 types; 11 data points
ChatGPT: Collects 6 types; 10 data points
Perplexity: Collects 6 types; 10 data points
Grok: Collects 4 types; 7 data points

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[–] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Just clarifying, does this report mean it's collected while a user is using the tools, or data that is generally scraped from the internet?

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Aren't they supposed to collect data?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 140 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Locally run AI: 0

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[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 99 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me when Gemini (aka google) collects more data than anyone else:

Not really shocked, we all know that google sucks

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would hazard a guess that the only reason those others aren't as high is because they don't have the same access to data. It's not that they don't want to, they simply can't (yet).

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which is good (for now). Glad I don't use that shit

[–] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who would have guessed that the advertising company collects a lot of data

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And I can't possibly imagine that Grok actually collects less than ChatGPT.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Data from surfshark aka nordvpn lol. Take it with a few chunks of salt

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah I feel like there's a supposedly missing somewhere. We don't know their servers so at the very least 'user content' is based on trust.

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[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Back in the day, malware makers could only dream of collecting as much data as Gemini does.

[–] abdominable@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have a bridge to sell you if you think grok is collecting the least amount of info.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

Ikr XD

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[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Or you could use Deepseek's workaround and run it locally. You know, open source and all.

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