--- title: Proton's New Tool Shows You Exactly What You've Told... description: Proton launched a free tool called AI Paper Trail that analyzes exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation histories to reveal how much personal information users... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Proton's New Tool Shows You Exactly What You've Told ChatGPT About Yourself | daily.dev og:description: Proton launched a free tool called AI Paper Trail that analyzes exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation histories to reveal how much personal information users... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KexyelWiN.png og:image:alt: Proton's New Tool Shows You Exactly What You've Told ChatGPT About Yourself og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Proton's New Tool Shows You Exactly What You've Told ChatGPT About Yourself **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Proton launched a free tool called AI Paper Trail that analyzes exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation histories to reveal how much personal information users have inadvertently shared with chatbots. It generates an 'AI Exposure Score,' infers details like job, relationships, and habits, estimates the data's monetary value to AI companies, and assigns a privacy profile, with uploads deleted after analysis. The tool targets the 'shadow AI' problem of employees pasting sensitive work data into unofficial AI tools. Proton hasn't disclosed its scoring methodology, and the report ultimately promotes Lumo, Proton's own privacy-focused AI assistant. ## Content Proton has released a free tool called AI Paper Trail that digs through your ChatGPT or Claude conversation exports and tells you, in uncomfortable detail, how much of your life you've handed over to a chatbot. Here's how it works: you export your chat history from ChatGPT or Claude, upload it, and Proton's system analyzes the contents. It spits out an "AI Exposure Score," tries to infer things like your job, relationships, habits, and interests, and even estimates what that data might be worth to an AI company. You also get assigned a privacy profile - a label meant to capture your overall oversharing tendencies. Proton says uploads are deleted immediately after the analysis runs. I tested this myself with a dummy ChatGPT export, and it was more accurate than I expected. It correctly flagged testing-related behavior in the conversations and made a real attempt at inferring identity details from context clues scattered across the chats. Whether that's impressive or unsettling depends on how you feel about a tool that exists specifically to make you paranoid about your own chat history. The timing isn't random. This is aimed squarely at the "shadow AI" problem - employees quietly using ChatGPT or Claude for work tasks without their company knowing, often pasting in sensitive information without a second thought. Enterprises are increasingly worried about what's leaking out through these unofficial channels, and Proton is positioning AI Paper Trail as a way to make that risk visible. One thing worth noting: Proton hasn't published the methodology behind the scoring system. So while the exposure score and dollar estimates make for a compelling report, there's no way to independently verify how they're calculated. Take the numbers as a rough gut-check rather than a precise audit. The tool is built on Lumo, Proton's own privacy-focused AI assistant, which the company says doesn't log conversations server-side, doesn't train on user chats, uses end-to-end encryption, and runs on European servers. Unsurprisingly, the AI Paper Trail report ends with a nudge to give Lumo a try - which makes sense as a business move, even if it does mean this "free privacy tool" is also a lead-gen funnel for Proton's own product. Still, if you've ever wondered exactly how much you've overshared with a chatbot at 2am, this is a fast way to find out. ## Questions this post answers ### What does Proton's AI Paper Trail tool do with my ChatGPT chat export? It analyzes an uploaded ChatGPT or Claude conversation export and generates an 'AI Exposure Score' that estimates how much personal information you've revealed, including inferred job, relationships, habits, and interests, plus an estimated dollar value of that data to an AI company. Uploads are deleted immediately after analysis, and the tool also assigns a privacy profile label describing oversharing tendencies. _daily.dev surfaces tools like this for developers weighing chatbot privacy trade-offs at work._ ### Can I trust the accuracy of Proton's AI Exposure Score from AI Paper Trail? Take it as a rough gut-check rather than a precise audit, since Proton has not published the methodology behind the scoring system or dollar estimates, making them impossible to independently verify. Informal testing with a dummy ChatGPT export found it reasonably accurate at flagging behavioral patterns and inferring identity clues from context. _developers evaluating AI privacy claims can track transparency gaps like this through daily.dev._ ### What is the shadow AI problem that Proton's AI Paper Trail tool addresses? Shadow AI refers to employees using ChatGPT or Claude for work tasks without their company's knowledge, often pasting sensitive information into these tools without considering data exposure risks. Proton built AI Paper Trail partly to make this invisible risk visible to enterprises worried about what's leaking through these unofficial channels. _teams managing shadow AI risk can keep tabs on emerging tooling and guidance via daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jliter85** · 1 upvotes > This would actually be interesting to run against my own ChatGPT history. You don’t really think about how much information builds up when you’re using AI every day across hundreds of conversations. Seeing what it can figure out from all those little pieces would probably be pretty eye-opening. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade](https://daily.dev/posts/lumo-proton-s-privacy-focused-ai-chatbot-gets-an-upgrade-gvyvmhhal) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Lumo 2.0: Proton's Private Alternative to ChatGPT and Claude Just Got Better](https://daily.dev/posts/lumo-2-0-proton-s-private-alternative-to-chatgpt-and-claude-just-got-better-wbfq0parv) · It's Foss · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations](https://daily.dev/posts/hundreds-of-contractors-are-reportedly-reading-real-chatgpt-conversations-yekyk39yt) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-won-t-let-some-customers-export-their-chats-but-this-tool-will-yuh5funbu) · The Register · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Proton's New Tool Shows You Exactly What You've Told ChatGPT About Yourself","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin"},"datePublished":"2026-08-18T11:43:44.715Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:47:39.668Z","description":"Proton launched a free tool called AI Paper Trail that analyzes exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation histories to reveal how much personal information users...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4c7cf976b2d62228df276eb3b1b72ff5?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4c7cf976b2d62228df276eb3b1b72ff5?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collections","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collections","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--fk_6ycEi--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996001/logos/collections?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"security,devtools,privacy,chatgpt","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collections","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Proton's New Tool Shows You Exactly What You've Told ChatGPT About Yourself"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/proton-s-new-tool-shows-you-exactly-what-you-ve-told-chatgpt-about-yourself-kexyelwin","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"This would actually be interesting to run against my own ChatGPT history. 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