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What exactly do ChatGPT and Claude know about you? Proton launches a tool to find out

From Le Temps · () French

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  • Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a tool that analyzes exported conversation histories from ChatGPT and Claude.
  • The service is designed to show users in detail what the two chatbots know about them and how much personal information they have collected.
  • Proton also uses the free tool to promote its own chatbot, Lumo, which it says does not retain logs, sell data or use conversations to train AI models.

What do ChatGPT and Claude actually know about their users? Proton is offering a way to find out, with a new tool that examines exported conversation histories from the two popular chatbots.

The Geneva-based company recently launched AI Paper Trail, a free service designed to show in detail the personal information that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude may have gathered through conversations. Users can use the tool to analyze their exchanges and see what those systems know about them.

There is also a clear commercial purpose behind the initiative. Proton is using the service to highlight its own chatbot, Lumo. The company says Lumo “does not retain any logs, protects every conversation through zero-access encryption, and never sells your data or uses it to train AI models.”

Testing Proton’s AI Paper Trail is straightforward. The article’s test used the tool to analyze conversations with ChatGPT, beginning with a login step. The service is presented as an exercise in examining the personal information contained in interactions with AI assistants.

does not retain any logs, protects every conversation through zero-access encryption, and never sells your data or uses it to train AI models.

· ProtonThe company describes the privacy protections of its own chatbot, Lumo.
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Originally published by Le Temps in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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