Is AI Chat for Search safe?
Shows AI-generated answers alongside results on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines.
It adds concise AI responses to search pages and lets you ask follow-up questions based on those responses. It also offers a search agent, an all-in-one chat page for comparing AI model answers, and a “gpt” address-bar shortcut for sending queries to a selected AI model.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 5.5.6. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on openai.com
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Store data in your browser
storage
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed AI Chat for Search contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- Googlewidely used
AI Chat for Search sends data to Google. Named as a recipient by 45 other extensions we have analysed.
- Bing
AI Chat for Search sends data to Bing. Named as a recipient by 6 other extensions we have analysed.
- DuckDuckGo
AI Chat for Search sends data to DuckDuckGo. Named as a recipient by 5 other extensions we have analysed.