AI Health Coaches: Empowering Fitness with Data, but at What Cost to Privacy?

New Wave of AI Health Coaches Raises Concerns about Data Privacy

Apple has also ventured into this territory with the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, enabling users to ask Siri about their health data. While not a full coaching service, Siri can handle “fitness-related queries” with on-device processing, eliminating the need to send user data to external servers.

WHOOP, on the other hand, introduced WHOOP Coach, a service designed to be a personal trainer in your pocket. It utilizes OpenAI’s GPT-4 combined with WHOOP’s algorithms to provide answers to questions about sleep, fitness, and more while emphasizing user privacy.