I tried Proton's AI Paper Trail tool — and I couldn't believe how much data chatbots know about me
If you found someone's diary, what would you do with it? That was the question that sat in my mind as I stared at my laptop screen, slightly shocked, after uploading my ChatGPT export to Proton AI Paper Trail.
The free tool built by privacy software engineers at Proton has one job: to analyse your exported chat history from ChatGPT or Claude and show you exactly how much of yourself you have inadvertently handed over. It runs on Lumo — the company's privacy-focused LLM — which, unlike the data-harvesting mindset of Big Tech giants, claims to delete user data immediately without retaining any of it.
I braced myself for the picture I knew I had volunteered — a hypochondriac fretting over career moves, various financial details, and a person prone to brainstorming relationship issues and researching travel plans. However, the profile I received was far more detailed than I...
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