🤖 AI privacy report card: Which chatbots make the grade?

September 16, 2026

By Kim Komando

AI makes it ridiculously easy to overshare. One minute you’re asking for dinner ideas. The next, you’ve typed in your age, medical history and where you’re going on vacation. That can come back to bite you.

Incogni put 13 big AI platforms under the privacy microscope. The results are a wake-up call to watch what you share.

🏆 And the privacy winner is …

A lesser-known bot called Vibe (formerly Le Chat), with ChatGPT right behind it for being the most up front about what it does with your words. On the other end? Copilot and Meta AI landed at the bottom of the class.

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Researchers scored how each one handles your chats, how easy it is to opt out of training, how clearly it explains the rules and what else it collects or shares.

Here’s the gut punch: Most free accounts let these models train on your convos by default. And none of these bots let you pull your data back out once it’s baked in.

⚠️ The no-prompt list

Some bots have a handy “don’t train on me” switch. Feels great, right? But even with training turned off, a company may still collect and combine other data about you.

So watch what you type:

• Medical stuff: Your doctor answers to HIPAA. AI bots don’t. Scrub your name, birth date and any ID.
• Legal trouble: Companies can be forced to hand over your logs. Your “private” chat could become Exhibit A.
• Photos: Give an app your camera roll? It can scan and store your pics.

Bottom line: Type like you’re being recorded. Because you are. Never paste in passwords, bank details or anything you’d panic to see out in the wild.

🎯 Make yourself a moving target

Even if you’re careful with AI, they still scrape public records and buy the rest from data brokers. Those companies can keep more than 3,000 facts on each person, then sell the file to advertisers, spammers and any creep with a credit card.

That’s why I use Incogni.* It sends removal requests to more than 420 data brokers and people-search sites for you. You can opt out yourself for free, but the forms are a mess, and your file crawls back in months.

Incogni’s team of real people does the grunt work for you. They resend requests to public brokers every 60 days, so your info doesn’t sneak back onto the shelf. You watch the whole thing happen from your dashboard. Their Exposure Scanner digs up profiles you didn’t know existed and lets you hit Remove. Deloitte independently verified the results. 

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