[Turn it off immediately, this app you use every day is spying on your photo album!] Research by a Japanese team indicates that Typeless's permission requests are excessive. While claiming local storage, your input is actually processed in the cloud and stored in plaintext. But this doesn't surprise me. In fact, I knew it would do this from the very first day I used Typeless, because most AI software does this. This includes the large models you use daily; your data and content are used by large model vendors to train their new models every day. For more private information, such as your passwords, never use AI software to process it, or at least use their privacy modes. For example, ChatGPT and Gemini both have privacy modes. In fact, it's not just AI software; the internet software we use daily also intrudes on privacy in a very exaggerated way. For example, many people use WeChat input methods, Sogou input methods, etc. As long as you enable cloud mode, your data is synced to the cloud in real time. But what I find most frightening is actually Dianping, which I use every day! I just discovered that if you have photo album permissions enabled by default, it can perform real-time analysis whenever you open your photo album, and you have no idea! This is terrifying. So, if you're using the Dianping app, immediately turn off photo album permissions, or at least turn off the "Smart Photo Album Analysis" feature. By the way, I'll continue using Typeless, including this input, because it's just so convenient. 😭

I wish I had discovered this sooner, Teacher Xin! I've used seven or eight speech-to-text converters before, and this is the first time I've used Typeless so smoothly.

Yes, I think the WeChat keyboard is scarier.