The claim from the stage was that your conversation disappears when you leave and your personal information isn’t collected or stored. The site’s own privacy notice is more careful than that. Answers can be cached for up to two hours, keyed to a hash of the prompt rather than the text, and the site may use your approximate location.
That’s a reasonable design, and a hash of a prompt isn’t a transcript. But “disappears” is marketing and “cached, hashed, and never stored in plain text” is engineering. The part nobody has answered yet is the contracts with Google and xAI, whose models write the answers.
““America.gov may cache responses for up to two hours, using a hash of the prompt rather than storing the prompt text,” that notice continues.”
