If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better honeypot than an AI chatbot.
\n\nOpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and their countless smaller competitors have become therapists, sounding boards, and virtual confession booths for millions of people around the world. Almost all of those AI models are set by default to collect and store that highly private data with, in many cases, no restrictions on how it’s shared or sold, used to further train the tools, or handed over to any lawsuit plaintiff or law enforcement agency that demands it through a legal process.
\n\n“You have this intelligent thing staring back at you, and you’re basically telling it, one question at a time, every possible thing there is to know about your life,” says Matt Green, a privacy- and security-focused computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University. “You're giving it this huge profile on you.”
\n\nA decade ago, text messages represented perhaps the most personal, sensitive data that most people shared from their devices, says cryptographer and software developer Moxie Marlinspike. The surveillance…
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