Proton AG, a Swiss company that “decided to build a better internet where privacy is the default,” and desires to “build an internet that puts people before profits, create a world where everyone is in control of their digital lives, and make digital freedom a reality,” has launched an AI tool “where every conversation is confidential.”
The AI assistant, dubbed Lumo, is “putting people and privacy first.” According to Proton, Lumo does not keep logs, deletes all logs of chats, does not share data, data is not used to train AI, and every chat is encrypted, so it “keeps your conversations confidential and your data fully under your control—never shared, sold, or stolen.” Proton states that Lumo was “built around privacy, security, and transparency.”
I have no idea if these statements are true—I have never used Lumo. That said, it is intriguing that Lumo is owned by the nonprofit Proton Foundation. Another intriguing claim is its self-comparison with other “leading AI assistants,” and its features that are “designed for privacy.”
Lumo is free and available for Android and iOS devices. It is one of the first, if not the first, AI assistant that touts privacy, so I am going to check it out now.