There are several ways your AI chat conversations can be made public

A DuckDuckGo-commissioned survey of 1,944 American adults found that 53% did not know whether their chatbot conversations were used to train the bots, and only a quarter knew such conversations can be subpoenaed. The article cites Character.AI's bankruptcy and court-supervised asset sale as an example of how user data and trained models may be transferred, noting the Bankruptcy Code has no provision specifically addressing trained models. It also describes three ways chatbot data can be exposed: bugs, sharing features, and absorption into training data, and warns that deleting chat records may not undo their influence on trained models.