Which AI personal agent can you trust with your data? A four-way privacy comparison
petergyang · x · 2026-09-02
Peter Yang compared Instinct, Grok Bot, ChatGPT, and Hermes—four AI personal agents that can read email, use logins, and make purchases—to assess data trust. The tutorial covers what each privacy policy actually says, the risks of logging in and completing 2FA on a cloud computer, a real prompt-injection example of agents leaking data, and how to use AI to audit and remove forgotten third-party app access on Google accounts.
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