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I just asked Mistral.ai, using it without an account:

what do you know about me? 2:50pm

I don't know anything about you unless you share information with me. How can I assist you today? 2:50pm you do not know my IP and its location? 2:50pm

That's correct, I don't have access to your IP address or your location. If you need assistance with something specific, feel free to let me know!

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You might as well have asked the pen on your desk how much it knows about you. Whether your personal data is in the current LLM context window or not has nothing to do with whether it was collected from you by Mistral.

Of course that doesn't prove much. Perhaps the information is only available to administrators.

Not to complain, but that test would be more interesting if you ran it with an account.

Rather than ask it if it knows anything about you, ask it where the nearest McDonalds is

Mistral seems honest in its assessment (as should be expected from a French company operating under GDPR). But e.g. ChatGPT will deny knowing your location, but still show a McDonalds that suggests it knows your IP geolocation

where is the nearest McDonald's? 18:51

I'm sorry, but I don't have the capability to access real-time location data to find the nearest McDonald's for you. However, you can easily find this information by using a maps application on your phone or computer.

So it sucks at that, but probably still collect your data.

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