Washington Post [no paywall] – A clickable guide to the complicated privacy settings for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. ChatGPT has been pushing its own year-end review like Spotify Wrapped. “Your year with ChatGPT” describes what you asked the bot in poems and pictures. It also reveals a giant hole in your privacy. Imagine how you’d feel if Google rewound a year of your searches. People use chatbots the way they’d use a therapist or a diary —which makes this even creepier. Most AI companies keep a file on everything you say to their bots. Your words, pictures, clicks and ideas help make their AI smarter. They use it to personalize bot responses so you stick around longer. And your chats fuel their other businesses, too: In December, Meta started to use what you share with its bot to target you with ads on Instagram and Facebook. ChatGPT has been pushing its own year-end review like Spotify Wrapped.

“Your year with ChatGPT” describes what you asked the bot in poems and pictures. It also reveals a giant hole in your privacy. Imagine how you’d feel if Google rewound a year of your searches. People use chatbots the way they’d use a therapist or a diary —which makes this even creepier. Most AI companies keep a file on everything you say to their bots. Your words, pictures, clicks and ideas help make their AI smarter. They use it to personalize bot responses so you stick around longer. And your chats fuel their other businesses, too: In December, Meta started to use what you share with its bot to target you with ads on Instagram and Facebook…”

See also PC Mag – ChatGPT Remembers Everything. 8 Privacy Tricks I Use to Prevent It From Learning Too Much About Me