Researchers develop a new forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from your phone’s memory

Georgia Tech researchers developed ORISA, a forensic tool that recovered deleted conversations in tests of 10 Android apps and three AI models; the tool requires access to a phone’s memory and storage.

• ORISA searches phone memory for residual data from locally run AI assistants and can reconstruct recovered chats as working chatbot sessions.· 1 source
• Across 60 test configurations involving 10 Android apps and three AI models, the researchers recovered deleted conversation data; in one test, ORISA recovered 26 facts from a session that had access to 14 when deleted.· 1 source
• The article says ORISA is a forensic tool, not a consumer app, and requires a copy of phone memory and storage; recovery can become harder when other activity overwrites data.· 1 source