--- title: The Incognito Mode Lie | daily.dev description: Incognito mode doesn't protect your data when using AI chatbots. Major AI companies use conversations to train their models, meaning personal information... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-incognito-mode-lie-omgt5xy4b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Incognito Mode Lie | daily.dev og:description: Incognito mode doesn't protect your data when using AI chatbots. Major AI companies use conversations to train their models, meaning personal information... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-incognito-mode-lie-omgt5xy4b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/omgT5xY4B.png og:image:alt: The Incognito Mode Lie 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. # The Incognito Mode Lie **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 4 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Incognito mode doesn't protect your data when using AI chatbots. Major AI companies use conversations to train their models, meaning personal information pasted into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini becomes part of their training data. Recent telecom partnerships offering free AI access are designed to collect user data at scale. Manual redaction of sensitive information is unreliable due to metadata, patterns, and overlooked identifiers. Mathematical approaches like automated redaction or synthetic data replacement can protect privacy while still enabling AI assistance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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