GoKawiilAI chatbots are everywhere, and people are leaning on them more than ever. You can use them to generate images, videos and even vibe-code apps and games. It's easy to get lost while playing around with them.
But not everyone is talking to chatbots in a lighthearted way. Some people are using them for therapy, as AI companions and to address their health concerns. Not only is that data being stored, but it can (and likely will) be used to train AI models further -- unless you do something about it.
By default, most AI chatbots and other AI tools have a setting that allows the company to use your data to train AI models, and all it does it take some tinkering in the settings to turn it off. And if you want to go even further, you can delete all of your previous conversations.
There are privacy concerns galore about AI generally, but since chatbots are the gateway to AI for most people, it's a glaring sore spot. In order to take back your data, you'll need to do one or two things, and that's opt out of having your data used for AI training purposes and delete the data that's there to be trained on for the future.
If your data has already been used to train an AI model, there's no undo option here, so being preemptive is your best bet.
Gemini
You'll need to turn off a few settings in your Google account and in Gemini to prevent your data from being used to train AI models.
Go to myactivity.google.com
Click Web & App Activity and turn it off.
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