what do you know about me? 2:50pm
I don't know anything about you unless you share information with me. How can I assist you today? 2:50pm you do not know my IP and its location? 2:50pm
That's correct, I don't have access to your IP address or your location. If you need assistance with something specific, feel free to let me know!
Mistral seems honest in its assessment (as should be expected from a French company operating under GDPR). But e.g. ChatGPT will deny knowing your location, but still show a McDonalds that suggests it knows your IP geolocation
I'm sorry, but I don't have the capability to access real-time location data to find the nearest McDonald's for you. However, you can easily find this information by using a maps application on your phone or computer.
ChatGPT was released to the public on November 30, 2022.
Otherwise, this reads like an FBI file:
(I just confirmed that by searching my email for anything mentioning OpenAI in 2020 and found an invite to create an account in October 2020.)
Full privacy, no data collection, no User profiling, no surveillance, no training with your data.
Plus, you can chose your preferred AI model: Claude, GPT, etc.
And it's even free of charge.
Now, take a guess where this comes from..
The alternative is transparency and verification of who has that data.
e.g. what is being researched or worked on for project A, might be vastly different or require different domain of knowledge for project B.
Or worse still, you ended up reusing code across different projects for different clients, and one day client O(#1) decides to sue client G(#2) and finds code similarities?
[1] as example, perhaps client O has a name that rhymes with "Horrible"
[2] and potentially client G's name rhymes with "Flugel"
I don’t have any personal information about you, as I don’t have access to user data unless it’s explicitly shared in the conversation. If you’ve posted publicly on X, I could potentially look up your profile or posts to learn more, but I’d need your X handle to do that. Alternatively, if you want to share something about yourself—like your interests, location, or what you’re curious about—I can tailor my responses based on that. What would you like me to know or explore about you?
It is the same as I have been doing for 15 years on public social media.
The fact that the LLMs are prone to hallucinations and fanciful conclusion jumping probably make things worse, because the only way to be safe from it wrongfully concluding things about you is to just be invisible to it.
This is the new memory feature where it automatically summarizes notes from your previous conversations.
I wrote more about the difference between the two here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/#we...
Also all: How come LLM (and the company that runs it and provides a way for me to access and use it) knows so much about me? That's creepy. And there's just no way anybody could predict that would happen
What resonated with me: every prompt, every correction, every hesitation feeds a profile the model refines over time. It’s not just personalization—it’s psychoanalysis-by-proxy.
This matter needs more than opt-out buttons. We need transparency and circuit breakers. Give me AI that explains why it suggests a certain answer—not just adapts forever without oversight.
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