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Moxie Marlinspike's latest project is Confer, a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT.
The concept that underpins Confer is "that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person."
The developer says conversations remain private and can't be stored or used for training purposes by third parties.
Moxie Marlinspike, the mind behind the secure messaging app Signal, has launched an alternative to AI chatbot ChatGPT that focuses on user privacy and security.
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It's probably no surprise that the popularity of ChatGPT is leading it down a well-worn path: the arrival of ads. However, this shift also highlights how our data is currency that tech organizations are falling over themselves to profit from, as well as growing data privacy concerns connected with AI chatbots.
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