AI Chatbot Privacy Concerns Highlighted in New Research Ranking
Recent research by Incogni, a personal data removal service, has evaluated the privacy practices of 13 leading AI chatbots, revealing significant differences in how they handle user data. The study focused on 11 strict protection criteria, categorizing findings into three main groups: how user prompts are used for training, the accessibility and transparency of privacy policies, and how platforms use learned information to create user profiles. The report indicates that some AI platforms, such as Vibe and ChatGPT, performed best in terms of privacy protection, with ChatGPT scoring highly for policy transparency. Conversely, Copilot, Meta AI, and Kimi were identified as having the worst privacy scores, particularly for their unclear privacy policies specific to Large Language Model (LLM) activities and their handling of user data for training. The research also found that many platforms make it difficult for users to opt out of data collection for training, and even when an opt-out is available, it often on... 
