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Using AI chatbots opens people up to numerous risks. The most obvious is that, given their propensity to hallucinate, an AI chatbot\u2019s answers may be factually incorrect while sounding completely authoritative. But beyond this informational risk lies another worrisome one: the risk to your privacy.<\/p>\n
When you prompt and chat with an AI chatbot, the company behind it uses your queries and conversation to further train its models. Many companies, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI, say they anonymize<\/a> this user data so it can\u2019t be traced back to individuals. However, given that no major AI company has let independent auditors verify their privacy claims, you just have to take AI companies at their word if you want to continue using their services.<\/p>\n Well, unless you have an iPhone. There\u2019s a cool trick that Apple smartphone owners can use to access ChatGPT while ensuring that OpenAI can\u2019t personally identify them. Here\u2019s how to do it.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no shortage of ways to use ChatGPT on your iPhone. You can do it via the official app, a web browser, or even through a number of third-party apps. But many iPhone owners are still unaware of a safer way to use ChatGPT on their iPhones\u2014at least when it comes to privacy. This is through Siri.<\/p>\n Yes, you can actually use Siri to process your ChatGPT requests, and when doing so, Siri provides a couple of significant privacy benefits you don\u2019t get with other methods of using ChatGPT (provided you follow the steps below).<\/p>\n The first is that when you use Siri to complete your ChatGPT requests, Apple masks your IP address, ensuring that OpenAI doesn\u2019t know your queries are all coming from the same person. It also only lets OpenAI know your general geographic region, and not your specific location, which further obscures your identity.<\/p>\nApple\u2019s Siri helps shield your identity from ChatGPT<\/h2>\n