AI Chatbots Share User Data with Third-Party Trackers
- Researchers identified over 13 third-party trackers in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity.
- Grok’s guest conversations are public by default, and TikTok’s tracker received verbatim message content.
- Perplexity recently removed its Meta tracker to enhance privacy controls.
The study reveals that major AI chatbots share data with advertising services like Meta and Google without clear user disclosure. Despite privacy controls, URLs and identifying data are transmitted to these platforms.
These findings highlight the potential risks of privacy breaches through AI chatbots as they transmit conversation data to third parties without user awareness. Source
