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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by will_a113@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@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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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And what about goddamn Mistral?

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its French as far as I know so at least it abides to gdpr by default.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All services you see above are provided to EU citizens, which is why they also have to abide by GDPR. GDPR does not disallow the gathering of information. Google, for example, is GDPR compliant, yet they are number 1 on that list. That’s why I would like to know if European companies still try to have a business case with personal data or not.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If it's one thing I don't trust its non-EU companies following GDPR. Sure they're legally bound to, but l mean Meta doesn't care so why should the rest.

(Yes I'm being overly dramatic about this, but I've lost trust ages ago in big tech companies)

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fully agree, which is also why I choose EU/Swiss made services by default

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not sure about swiss, they shady as hell if you have scepticism towards rich people greed

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I’m only referring to data privacy laws.

[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't mean they "have to abide by GDPR" or that they "are GDPR compliant". All it means is they appear to be GDPR compliant and pretend to respect user privacy. The sole fact that the AI chatbots are run in US-based data centres is against GDPR. The EU has had many different personal data transfer agreements with the US, all of which were canceled shortly after signing due to US corporations breaking them repeatedly (Facebook usually being the main culprit).

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I tried to say that, but you were better at explaining, so thank you. Without a court case, you will essentially never know, if they are truly GDPR compliant