{"id":375939,"date":"2026-08-26T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375939"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:20:14","slug":"do-we-tell-ai-our-secrets-the-hidden-danger-duckduckgo-wants-to-uncover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/do-we-tell-ai-our-secrets-the-hidden-danger-duckduckgo-wants-to-uncover\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we tell AI our secrets? The hidden danger DuckDuckGo wants to uncover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artificial intelligence has very quickly become a tool we turn to for work, searching the internet, or talking about personal matters. A survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo-windows-10.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>, conducted among nearly 2,000 people, paints a concerning picture: <strong>we are increasingly sharing increasingly personal things with AI<\/strong>, much more than we perhaps imagine.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One in three users tells AI their secrets<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to DuckDuckGo&#8217;s study, 32% of those of us who use chatbots have told an AI something that, until a few years ago, we&#8217;d normally tell only friends, family, or medical professionals. Among the most enthusiastic AI users, the figure reaches 56%, while among parents it rises to 43%. <strong>AI is becoming our digital confidant<\/strong> and that has its risks.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real issue is what happens afterward. Only 47% of respondents were clear that most chatbots use conversations to train their models and only 25% knew that a chat may be requested in legal proceedings. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to protect your private data in <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a> and review its privacy settings, since <strong>58% of participants say they feel uncomfortable with their conversations being used for training<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DuckDuckGo raises an interesting point: the most interesting piece of data for a tech company may be in our next question. We saw something similar when talking about how <a href=\"https:\/\/google-classroom.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> can use our information to train its AI and how opting out as soon as possible is the best move. <strong>Every conversation deserves at least as much care as the last, if not more. Our data should stay ours<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has very quickly become a tool we turn to for work, searching the internet, or talking about personal matters. A survey by DuckDuckGo, conducted among nearly 2,000 people, paints a concerning picture: we are increasingly sharing increasingly personal things with AI, much more than we perhaps imagine. One in three users tells AI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/do-we-tell-ai-our-secrets-the-hidden-danger-duckduckgo-wants-to-uncover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do we tell AI our secrets? The hidden danger DuckDuckGo wants to uncover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9262,"featured_media":375938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-375939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375940,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375939\/revisions\/375940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375939"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375939"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375939"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}