Complete beginnerLesson 5 of 55 min read
What we never entrust to it
A course from the Academy: Doubt, verify, cross-check.
Go to the quiz ↓What you write goes to a company's servers. That's neither a scandal nor a secret: it's how things normally work, and you simply need to take it into account.
The rule in one sentence
Don't write anything you wouldn't say to a competent, well-meaning stranger, a stranger all the same.
Concretely, never
- Passwords and codes, under no circumstances.
- Bank card numbers, social security numbers, ID numbers.
- Someone else's health data.
- Confidential work documents, unless your employer has approved the tool.
The case we forget: other people
Pasting an email you've received means passing on the data of the person who wrote it, and they had no say in the matter. Anonymise before pasting: remove names, addresses, numbers. The meaning of the text stays the same, and so does the explanation.
A setting worth knowing about
Most services offer, in the settings, the option to disable the use of your conversations for training. The service keeps working exactly the same. It's worth going to find it once.
What to do now
Open the settings of the AI you use and look for the section on data. Check what's enabled.
Complete the lesson
A 4-question quiz: 3 correct answers are enough, plus an exercise to practise. It opens in the Academy, on this same lesson.
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