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AI and What Snapchat's My AI Knows About You
My AI logs everything you tell it — here's what that means for your privacy.
Builders · Safety & Governance · ~4 min read
The big idea
Snapchat's My AI feels like a friend in your DMs, but it's a data product owned by Snap. Everything you say is stored, analyzed, and possibly used for training.
Some examples
- You vent about a fight — that text sits on Snap's servers.
- Snap has used chat data to train its models in the past.
- Police can subpoena My AI logs in investigations.
- Treat My AI like a public post, not a private message.
Try it!
Open My AI and ask it 'what do you remember about me?' Notice what it surfaces — that's the tip of what's stored.
Key terms in this lesson
Practice this safely
Try this with a school, hobby, or family example where the stakes are low. Use the AI output as a draft you can question, not as the final answer.
- 1Ask AI to explain chatbot data in plain language, then underline anything that sounds uncertain or too broad.
- 2Give it one detail from "AI and What Snapchat's My AI Knows About You" and ask for two possible next steps plus one reason each step might be wrong.
- 3Check platform retention against a trusted source, teacher, adult, expert, or original document before you use it.
End-of-lesson quiz
Check what stuck
8 questions · Score saves to your progress.
Lesson help
Questions are best handled with a grown-up here.
For this age range, Tendril keeps freeform AI chat paused until parent/guardian consent and child-safe moderation are fully verified. Use the quiz, notes, and related lessons below, or ask a parent, guardian, teacher, or librarian to work through the question with you.
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