Private AI?
WIRED
How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
Very confused, is this all BS?
“Confer, the private AI chatbot launched by Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike, uses that Nvidia-based TEE setup— along with an authentication system…”
“Meta, too, uses a TEE to offer a more private version of the Meta AI chatbot included in WhatsApp—a privacy system that Confer’s Marlinspike has said he is helping Meta to develop.”
This feels too good to be true and I am surprised this article is the first i am hearing about the relationship between Marlinspike and Meta for this product.
I’m no expert so take this with a grain of salt.
But basic logic says if the data (your prompt) gets processed by anything then it needs to be able to read it. Therefore its not private by default.
Sure, they can encrypt it (where? At rest? End to end?) and not retain history etc, and that can make it more private, but it won’t be private.
That’s like Proton’s Lumo which is “private” in the same sense, but the requests are being sent to a server to process so that data is read by something somewhere. I use Lumo BTW, but never put personal info into it etc.
Then no matter how private it is, if Meta starts using it it’s immediately spyware.
If you want true private you’ll need to run your own local models.
Marlinspike seemed like he might be ok, and now he’s working with a company that’s been proven time and time again that it can’t be trusted to do anything?
Lemmings, what are your thought on duck.ai?
I tend to use it to help with homework for uni if I don’t have access to a powerful enough device to run something locally.
I like it. I treat it the same as any other AI apart from my local llama.cpp.
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It’s paywalled for me so I can’t verify this, but the quote provided looks like two separate statements. It does not necessarily mean Marlinspike works with Meta.
It links to a blog entry from his AI project confer.to: confer.to/blog/2026/03/encrypted-meta/
“As Confer continues to operate as an independent entity, I will also work to integrate Confer’s privacy technology so that it underpins Meta AI. Meta is building advanced frontier models, so this will combine the most private AI chat technology in the world with the most capable AI models in the world. As Meta builds more AI products beyond the basic chat paradigm, the privacy technology from Confer will be a part of the foundation of everything that is to come.”
Thank you for the further detail and working link.