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Brave’s new product – Leo – is a generative AI assistant, on top of Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama 2. Apparently, Leo promotes user-privacy as its main feature.
Unlike any other generative AI-chatbots, like ChatGPT, Leo offers much better privacy to its users. The AI assistant does not store any of the user’s chat history, neither does it use the user’s data for training purposes.
Moreover, a user does not need to make an account in order to access Leo. Also, if a user is leveraging its premium experience, Brave will not link their accounts to the data they may have used. / Leo chatbot has been put to test for three months now. However, Brave is now making Leo available to all users of the most recent 1.60 desktop browser version. As soon as Brave rolls it out to you, you ought to see the Leo emblem on the sidebar of the browser. In the upcoming months, Leo support will be added to the Brave apps for Android and iPhone.
Privacy with Leo AI Assistant
User privacy has remained a major concern when it comes to ChatGPT and Google Bard or any AI product.
A better option in AI chatbots, along with their innovative features, will ultimately be the one which provides better privacy to its users. Leo, in this case, has a potential to bring a revolution, taking into account that Brave promotes the chatbot’s “unparalleled privacy” feature straight away.
Since users do not require any account to access Leo, they need not verify their emails or phones numbers as well. This way, the user’s contact information is rather secure.
Moreover, if the user chooses to use $15/month Leo Premium, they receive tokens that are not linked to their accounts. However, Brave notes that, this way, “ you can never connect your purchase details with your usage of the product, an extra step that ensures your activity is private to you and only you.”
The company says, “the email you used to create your account is unlinkable to your day-to-day use of Leo, making this a uniquely private credentialing experience.”
Brave further notes that all Leo requests will be sent via an anonymous server, meaning that Leo traffic cannot be connected to user’s IP addresses.
More significantly, Brave will no longer host Leo's conversations. As soon as they are formed, they will be disposed of instantly. Leo will also not learn from those conversations. Moreover, Brave will not gather any personal identifiers, such as your IP address. Leo will not gather user data, nor will any other third-party model suppliers. Considering that Leo is based on two language models, this is significant.
