AI browser assistants have been found capturing sensitive user data from private websites

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AI assistants built into web browsers, including ChatGPT, are scooping up sensitive personal information from sites that many people assume are private, a new research from teams in the UK and Italy shows. The researchers examined ten popular AI-enabled browsers and extensions, among them OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Merlin AI for Google Chrome, and put them through tests on both open websites and password-protected portals such as a university’s health records system. Private sites ...