Orosz Warns AI Startup Stored Emails After Disconnect
Gergely Orosz posted about an AI assistant startup storing user emails after disconnection.
Gergely Orosz reminded readers of risks with AI agent startups and their access to sensitive data. He wrote that Inspect silently copied and stored emails on its servers even after users disconnected the integration, and that deletion was not possible at the time. Teknium replied asking if Orosz meant Instinct. A source summary in the packet describes an AI email assistant startup called Instinct that reportedly copied and stored Gmail data on its servers after disconnection, with one user receiving a post-disconnect email summary.
what a thrill! i disconnected ai bot instinct from google at 11 AM and got a summary of my emails at 2 PM 😵 here's what happened, and what i've learned 👇
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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszA reminder that a massive downside of AI agent startups: the massive, silent sensitive data access. Inspect (an AI assistant startup) silently copied + stored emails (your data) on their server. Even after disconnecting. In ways that cannot be deleted (for now) Just so so risky
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T🪽 NR Nous Research@NousResearch@GergelyOrosz Open source fixes this
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GO Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszMeant Instinct ofc as the AI startup name! Typo
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