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Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.

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[–] TaterTot@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

This is just from the article, so it could all be bullshit, but...

Your Confer conversations can’t be used to train the model or target ads, for the simple reason that the host will never have access to them.

That makes it sound like it is nothing as an alternative.