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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] scintilla@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Am I missing something? What do the numbers mean in relation to the type? Sub types?

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

perhaps it's the limit imof each data type?!

gemini harvests only your first four cobtacts, your last two locations, and so on.

how does one defeat that? have fewer than four friends and don't go out!

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Ask people for their phone number to add to your contacts and give them your phone for a day

[–] caoimhinr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's labeled "Unique data points". See the number 2 - Usage Data for Gemini, there's an arrow with label there.

[–] scintilla@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you I totally missed that.

[–] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Aren't they supposed to collect data?

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