You are right that the privacy wording was too broad. We are fixing it now so it states explicitly that Echo does not use customer prompts, files, chats, or outputs to train or fine-tune models. We are updating the matching Terms language at the same time.

Echo also starts users with free credit and does not require a credit card to try it. The current signup flow did not make that clear enough, so we are fixing that presentation too.

Thanks for calling both out.

If you want to try a similar idea that you can chat with immediately (free tier uses open weight models), I'm working on this: http://pellmell.ai

I assume trying without a credit card will bankrupt him immediately.

That would open him up to lots of abuse