The use of chatbots with AI exposes people to numerous risks. The most obvious is that, given his propensity for hallucinations, the responses of a chatbot with AI they can be incorrect, even if they sound completely authoritative. But beyond this information risk, there is another worrying one: the risk to privacy.
When you interact with a chatbot of AI, The company that develops it uses your questions and conversations to continue training its models. Many companies, including OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, claim to anonymize this user data so that it cannot be traced back to individual people. However, since no major AI company has allowed independent auditors to verify their privacy claims, you’ll have to take their word for it if you want to continue using their services.
Well, unless you have an iPhone. There is a clever trick that users of smartphones Apple can use to access ChatGPT without OpenAI being able to identify them personally.
There are many ways to use ChatGPT on your iPhone. You can do it through the official application, a web browser or even through third-party applications. However, many iPhone users are still unaware of a safer way to use ChatGPT on their devices, at least when it comes to privacy: using Siri.
Yes, in fact, you can use Siri to process your ChatGPT requests And in doing so, Siri offers you a couple of important privacy benefits that you don’t get with other methods of using ChatGPT. (as long as you follow the steps below).
First of all, When you use Siri to complete your ChatGPT requests, Apple hides your IP address, ensuring that OpenAI doesn’t know that all your queries are coming from the same person. Additionally, it only tells OpenAI about 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 via Siri are excluded from the data it uses to train its models. Additionally, OpenAI cannot, except in limited circumstances required by law, store the information you provide to it or the responses provided by ChatGPT.
By running your ChatGPT queries through Siri, you can help reduce the digital profile that OpenAI can create about you, preserving more of your privacy.
Siri, powered Apple Intelligencehas an extension function that allows you to integrate Apple’s digital assistant with ChatGPT. This allows you to ask Siri to use the extensive language model to answer questions, generate images and text.
Apple offers you two options for this extension: you can use it with or without signing in to your ChatGPT account. If you sign in to the ChatGPT extension for Siri, OpenAI will get virtually all the data it collects about you when you use its service, allowing it to link your specific queries to your OpenAI account. But if you don’t log in, you’ll enjoy all the privacy benefits mentioned above.
To make sure you’re not signed in to the ChatGPT Siri extension, do the following:
Now you can route your ChatGPT request through Siri, preserving much more privacy. To do this, you have several options, such as holding down the side button of the iPhone. Once Siri activates, simply say “Use ChatGPT to…” and continue with your request.
Alternatively, if you prefer to type your requests, you can double-tap the bottom of your iPhone screen to bring up the “Ask Siri” text box. Simply add “Use ChatGPT to…” to your query and Siri will manage it through ChatGPT, protecting your privacy as detailed above.
Siri’s protection benefits depend on a few factors. First of all, as already mentioned, you need to keep the ChatGPT session logged out in the extension settings. If you’re already signed in, ChatGPT will be able to associate all of your Siri requests with you.
Second, even if you remain offline, if you voluntarily provide ChatGPT with any information that personally identifies you, such as your name or other personal information, this information will be transmitted to ChatGPT along with your inquiry.
Of course, Apple’s agreement with OpenAI means that this information cannot be used to train its AI models, but depending on the query and location, OpenAI could be required to retain this data to comply with applicable laws.
