If privacy is the reason you are leaving ChatGPT, the details matter more than the slogan. Here are private alternatives and exactly what each one protects.
A lot of tools call themselves private. Fewer say what that means. If you are switching for privacy, you want specifics: is it encrypted, is it trained on, can you delete it, and where does the honesty end.
Berges AI is one option here, and we describe it the same way we describe the rest: plainly, including the limits.
Conversations encrypted at rest with AES-256, never used for training, deletable in one click. Not end-to-end encrypted, and we say so. Open-weights models, subscription-only.
From the Proton privacy suite, with a strong stated no-logs and encryption posture.
Anonymous, no-account access to several models, with DuckDuckGo's privacy framing.
Run open-weights models on your own machine, so nothing leaves your hardware.
Self-hosting an open-weights model keeps data on your hardware but takes setup. Among hosted products, look for clear, specific claims: Berges AI states AES-256 at rest, no training, and one-click deletion, and is honest that it is not end-to-end.
No. It encrypts at rest, but messages are decrypted in memory to generate a reply. We would rather say that than imply more than is true.
Berges AI does not train on your conversations. Policies vary across the others, so check each one's specifics rather than the label "private".