There are almost countless AI chatbots you can pick up and start using for free, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot remaining the typical go-to options. For most people, the free options are good enough for general text and image queries, though there are limits, like only having more basic models, or not being able to generate many images.

The AI chatbot ChatGPT from Open AI has triggered the hype surrounding generative artificial intelligence and dominates much of the media coverage. However, in addition to the AI models from Open AI, there are other chatbots that deserve attention.

I scanned the privacy policies and reports for the top AI apps and found just one that doesn’t share your data with advertisers or use it for training purposes. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps ...