A way to escape AI surveillance

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Summary

A guide to disabling AI training data collection across popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot, along with a mention of a custom extension called UnSee to simplify the process.

Got into a rabbit hole last weekend after noticing both Claude and ChatGPT were set to train on my conversations and I never agreed to that anywhere. It's on quietly and the off switch is like three menus deep in every one of them, that's just annoying lol So I went through the four I actually use and wrote down where each toggle lives. Putting it here because it took way longer than it should've. ChatGPT: Settings > Data controls > "Improve the model for everyone", off. Then the one people miss: your saved "memory" survives even after you delete all your chats. You have to go to Personalization > Memory and wipe that separately. Gemini: it's not even in the app. It's at myactivity.google.com/product/gemini > "Turn off and delete activity". They still hold it 72h after, fyi. Claude: Settings > Privacy > "Help improve Claude" off. Credit where due, deleted chats actually get purged from their backend in 30 days. Copilot: profile > Privacy > turn off model training on text and voice. If you're in the EU it might not even show up because it's already off there by default, which tells you something. The part nobody likes to admit: none of this pulls your data back out of a model that already trained on it. That's gone, nobody can undo it. All you can do is stop feeding it going forward and clear what they're still storing. So it's basically a one-time cleanup. Made an extension to simplify those steps called UnSee, I get nothing, no sign up needed, no plans or bs like that. Just trying people to escape the AI surveillance, so check out if you want to http://un-see.com/
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