This iPhone trick lets you use ChatGPT without the privacy risks |
This iPhone trick lets you use ChatGPT without the privacy risks
If you care about preserving your anonymity when using ChatGPT, you can use your iPhone to obscure your digital profile. Here’s how.
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Using AI chatbots opens people up to numerous risks. The most obvious is that, given their propensity to hallucinate, an AI chatbot’s answers may be factually incorrect while sounding completely authoritative. But beyond this informational risk lies another worrisome one: the risk to your privacy.
When you prompt and chat with an AI chatbot, the company behind it uses your queries and conversation to further train its models. Many companies, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI, say they anonymize this user data so it can’t be traced back to individuals. However, given that no major AI company has let independent auditors verify their privacy claims, you just have to take AI companies at their word if you want to continue using their services.
Well, unless you have an iPhone. There’s a cool trick that Apple smartphone owners can use to access ChatGPT while ensuring that OpenAI can’t personally identify them. Here’s how to do it.
Apple’s Siri helps shield your identity from ChatGPT
There’s no shortage of ways to use ChatGPT on your iPhone. You can do it via the official app, a web browser, or even through a number of third-party apps. But many iPhone owners are still unaware of a safer way to use ChatGPT on their iPhones—at least when it comes to privacy. This is through Siri.
Yes, you can actually use Siri to process your ChatGPT requests, and when doing so, Siri provides a couple of significant privacy benefits you don’t get with other methods of using ChatGPT (provided you follow the steps below).
The first is that when you use Siri to complete your ChatGPT requests, Apple masks your IP address, ensuring that OpenAI doesn’t know your queries are all coming from the same person. It also only lets OpenAI know your general geographic region, and not your specific location, which further obscures your identity.
But even better, thanks to an agreement between Apple and OpenAI, prompts sent to ChatGPT through Siri are excluded from the data it uses to train its models. OpenAI also cannot, except in limited circumstances required by law, store the information you provide or the responses ChatGPT gives you.
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