If you don’t trust Big Tech with your data, this is the chatbot for you

Sure, when chatbots aren’t outright hallucinating, they can be helpful tools for gathering information, generating ideas, and completing tasks. But some of the biggest players in the AI chatbot space—including OpenAI, Google, and Meta—aren’t exactly known for strong privacy protections. So you have to have a lot of blind faith that the data you give to their chatbots won’t be used in ways you might not like, such as building a profile around you and your prompt history for the purposes of advertising or tracking. So, what’s a person to do if they don’t trust Big Tech with their chatbot data? Give up AI chatbots entirely? Luckily, they don’t have to. I’ve been testing out a relatively small player in the AI chatbot market for a few weeks now called Duck.ai. It offers access to some of the most powerful LLMs out there while protecting my privacy from them. Now, I can’t imagine myself ever going back to using one of the behemoths directly. ChatGPT without the privacy fears [Photo: D