Incognito AI chats hide from your history, not the company: 30-day retention explained
tres_pares · reddit · 2026-11-04
ChatGPT's Temporary Chat and Claude's incognito chats keep conversations out of your history, memory, and training data — but OpenAI may retain copies up to 30 days for safety, and Anthropic keeps incognito chats 30 days by default. On Claude Team/Enterprise plans, incognito chats even appear in data exports for account owners. They hide chats from your history, not from the company.
More private options
- Local models via Ollama/LM Studio with open weights like Qwen and DeepSeek: prompts never leave your machine, but hardware limits apply and you can't run ChatGPT/Claude models
- Identity-split platforms (the post promotes Dreamfort AI): device-side encryption, a blind relay, and a TEE decrypting without seeing your IP — the model sees your prompt but not who sent it
Useful rundown of what "private" actually means across the three approaches, with light product promotion.
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