On this page, three companies receive what you say or type: OpenAI, Deepgram and Cerebras. Our web host, Cloudflare, carries it to them.

When you tap the mic and choose to start talking, your voice is sent live to OpenAI so the bird can hear and answer you.

If you type to the bird instead, what you type is sent to OpenAI in the same way.

Each time you speak, a recording of what you said, starting a moment before you begin, is also sent to Deepgram, a speech-to-text company, so we can check the bird heard you right. If Deepgram cannot answer, OpenAI makes that check instead.

If you talk over the bird, the part of its reply that played is sent to Deepgram and OpenAI to work out where you stopped listening. That recording is the bird's voice, not yours.

If the bird fumbles an action, up to the last 40 lines of the conversation are sent in writing to Cerebras, so it can work out what the bird meant to do.

Deepgram keeps the recording only while it transcribes it, does not use it to train its models, and does that work in Australia.

Cerebras says it does not keep what it receives and has no right to train its models on it. It may do that work in the United States or other countries.

We use your voice to run this demo and for nothing else.

We do not use what you say or type to train models.

OpenAI does not use it to train its models either.

Speaking here does not add you to a mailing list and does not enrol you in our research. Those are separate decisions and we would ask you separately.

Your audio, and anything you type, leaves New Zealand.

We do not store your voice, or a transcript of what you say or type.

OpenAI keeps a copy of what you say and type for up to 30 days, only so it can check for misuse, and then deletes it, unless the law requires it to keep it longer.

This demo is run by Axiom Intelligence.

You can reach us about any of this at regan@axiomintelligence.co.nz.

To ask what we hold about you, write to that address and say roughly when you visited.

You do not have to speak. Just watch keeps the mic off and sends nothing: the flock flies on its own, and anything you draw on the sky stays on this device. Conducting it needs your voice or your typing.

Each session ends after three minutes at most. It can be shorter if this demo's voice time for today is nearly used up.

Each demo has up to twelve minutes of voice a day, shared by everyone, and all demos together stop after 50 sessions a day. After that, voice is off until midnight, New Zealand time.

If you talk for the full three minutes, Regan gets a note that someone did. It does not say who, or anything you said.

Please do not use the mic if you are under 16.