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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Me when Gemini (aka google) collects more data than anyone else:
Not really shocked, we all know that google sucks
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).
Which is good (for now). Glad I don’t use that shit
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DeepSeek at home: None
How much VRAM does your machine have? Are you using open webui?
Doesn’t the official local app still have telemetry? I might be remembering wrong
You just use the model in an opensource program, not theirs.
How?
There’s programs like Ollama and Lmstudio that let you download LLMs and run them locally
Also llama.cpp, kobold.cpp, TabbyAPI, Aphrodite engine. There’s dozens of programs, at least, that run LLMs locally.
Who would have guessed that the advertising company collects a lot of data
And I can’t possibly imagine that Grok actually collects less than ChatGPT.
Data from surfshark aka nordvpn lol. Take it with a few chunks of salt
Skill issue probably. They want to collect more but Musk’s shitty hires can’t figure it out. /s
And what about goddamn Mistral?
Its French as far as I know so at least it abides to gdpr by default.
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.
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)
Fully agree, which is also why I choose EU/Swiss made services by default
not sure about swiss, they shady as hell if you have scepticism towards rich people greed
I’m only referring to data privacy laws.
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).
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
Back in the day, malware makers could only dream of collecting as much data as Gemini does.
I have a bridge to sell you if you think grok is collecting the least amount of info.
Ikr XD
I’m interested in seeing how this changes when using duck duck go front end at duck.ai
there’s no login and history is stored locally (probably remotely too)
Note this is if you use their apps. Not the api. Not through another app.
Not that we have any real info about who collects/uses what when you use the API
Yeah we do, they list it in privacy policies. Many of these they can’t really collect even if they wanted to
Who TF using Grok.
Fascists. Why?
Most of my workforce strangely enough. They claim it’s the best for them in terms of mathematics, but I can’t find that to be a good reason.
Isn’t deepseek better for that?
That’s what I’m saying!
Anyone has these data from Mistral, HuggingChat and MetaAI ? Would be nice to add them too
Edit : Leo from brave would be great to compare too
Gemini: “Other Data”
Like, what’s fucking left!?
The Broligarchy: “Everything.”
Me: Squints Pours glowing demon tanning lotion on ground
Trump: “You dare dispute my rule?! And you would have these… mongrels… come here to die?”
Open Source Metaverse online. Launching Anti-StarLink missiles…
Warning. FOSS Metaverse alternative launch detected.
The Broligarchy: “This was not how it was supposed to be…”
Me: “Times change. But war, war never changes.”
…
“We will never be slaves. But we WILL be online. For the Open Source Metaverse we deserve!”
Anyway, hopefully that’s the real future in some sense. The metaverse is, technologically, in a state resembling 1995’s World Wide Web. We can stop the changes that made social media happen the first time, but that comes at a grave cost of it’s own… Zero tolerance for interference with the FOSS paradigm. This means no censorship even for the most vile of content, and no government authority over online activity ever again. It also means we have less than 150 years to become immortal because having children inherently puts kids at risk of sexual exploitation, so everyone - literally everyone - must be made infertile permanently to make that impossible.
Life extension is actually plausible, and omnispermicide would make denying it a war crime. That is the only fix I can see, but all of you would never pay it. That is why I stopped writing; every goddamn story and society at large championed “anti-escapism” in 2017 and onwards, and I will NEVER forgive you all for that. Fuck reality. I Have No Truth and I Must Dream. I want to die because I hate you all.
Almost none of this data is possible to collect when using Tor Browser
Or you could use Deepseek’s workaround and run it locally. You know, open source and all.
anyone whos competent in the matter: what about the french competition chat.mistral.ai
