Short answer? Yes. Yes, Venice.AI, our pick for the uncensored alternative to ChatGPT, is actually private.
Longer answer? Venice is probably the most private AI platform you can use right now—unless you’re running your own AI models on a high-powered laptop in a cave with no internet connection.
Longest answer? Keep reading for the full privacy breakdown. You know you want to.
Not convinced that privacy is important? Check out what Venice has to say about that:
What Makes Venice.AI Private?
Most tech and AI companies store everything they can get their hands on. Data has become the new gold. They log your chats, analyze your inputs, and store everything indefinitely like digital pack rats. Venice AI doesn’t. Here’s why:
- They don’t have access to your chats. Nothing is stored on their servers—your conversations live and die in your browser. They can’t store your chats because they don’t have access to them in the first place.
- Your content stays encrypted in your local browser. Prompts, responses, images, and even document uploads stay encrypted in your internet browser.
- No centralized storage. Your chat history exists only in your local browser. If you clear your chat history? Poof—gone forever.
- No device syncing. If you switch devices, your chat history doesn’t follow you. It’s like a clean slate every time.
This means Venice.AI has no way to peek at your chats, even if they wanted to.
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“What About the AI Data Processing?”
Here’s where some trust is involved—because, unless you’re running a local AI model, your prompts have to go somewhere to get processed. This is the internet, after all.
- When you submit a prompt, it goes through Venice’s proxy service, which distributes it to decentralized GPUs (fancy processors that crunch the AI magic).
- The Venice GPUs see only the raw prompt text—no user data, no IPs, and nothing identifiable.
- Once the AI generates a response, the data is immediately purged from the GPU. It never sticks around.
“What If Someone Breaches Venice’s GPUs?”
Okay, let’s say some hacker breaks into one of these decentralized GPUs that Venice uses. What can they see?
- A bunch of random prompts with zero identifying information. No user names, no email addresses, no accounts, just standalone text requests processed in random order.
- Even then, those prompts get deleted immediately after processing.
In short: a hacker would have to be both extremely lucky and extremely fast to even find something interesting before it vanishes into the digital ether. The chance of this happening is slim to none.
What Does Venice.AI Track?
Compared to mainstream AI services, Venice tracks almost nothing. But here’s what they do collect, depending on your account type:
- No Account Users: Basic metadata like timezone, browser type, and IP (to prevent abuse). Use a VPN if you want to hide some of this. Also, you can disable telemetry information collection by going to “Settings” → “App” → “Disable Telemetry Collection”. This will disable all tracking of usage data like sign-ins and app activity.
- Free Account Users: Venice will also know the email address you used (or a public key if you sign up with a Web3 wallet). Tip: If you don’t want Venice to know your email address, simply create a new throwaway account just for Venice.
- Pro Account Users: If you pay with a credit card, Venice never sees your payment info—that’s all handled by Stripe. Crypto payments only store the public key that made the payment.
Wrapping it up
If you’re not running local AI models on your own (expensive) hardware, Venice.AI is about as private as you’re going to get.
- Your chats are never stored on Venice’s servers.
- Your conversation history lives in your browser.
- Your prompts never contain identifiable info when they hit the AI processing GPUs.
- Everything is SSL encrypted and disappears the moment it’s no longer needed.
As far as we know here at Run The Prompts, no other AI service comes close to this level of privacy.
For additional information, check out Venice’s official privacy resources: Venice.AI Privacy Architecture, Venice.AI Privacy Policy, and Venice FAQs.
And remember to get 20% off Venice Pro with promo code “RUN20”.
Until next time, remember to run the prompts and prompt the planet.
Disclaimer: The information in this article is based on Venice.AI’s publicly available privacy policies and statements. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, users should review Venice.AI’s official documentation for the most up-to-date information. Run The Prompts does not have access to its internal systems or processes and is not responsible for the accuracy of any information. By using Venice AI, you assume all risks and liabilities associated with such use. The author is not employed by Venice AI but may receive a referral commission if you sign up or make a purchase using their unique referral link.
