Which AI personal agent can you trust? A hands-on privacy audit of Instinct, Grok Bot, ChatGPT and Hermes
petergyang · x · 2026-09-03
A new tutorial compares Instinct, Grok Bot, ChatGPT and Hermes as personal AI agents: what their privacy policies actually say, how risky it is to enter passwords and 2FA codes into a cloud browser, and a real example of the danger. The author argues the persistent-cloud-computer direction feels fundamentally unsafe without more official plugins, and demonstrates using AI to audit and remove third-party apps connected to your Google Account (he found over 80 of his own).
Related event: Comparing Privacy Policies of Four Personal AI Agents(3 posts)→
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