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Lesson 13 · 1 min
What not to paste into AI
Treat a chatbot like a public place: never paste anything you would not want a stranger to read.
What you type into a chatbot is sent to the company's servers. Depending on the tool and your settings, it may be stored, reviewed by staff, or used to train future models.
Never paste passwords, bank or card numbers, ID or passport numbers, medical records, or other people's private details. At work, do not paste customer data, contracts or secret plans unless your company has approved that tool.
Before pasting, remove or replace sensitive bits: "Customer A" instead of a name, "[AMOUNT]" instead of the real number. The AI rarely needs the real details to help.
Check the settings. Most tools let you turn off training on your chats, and work or school accounts often have stronger privacy rules.
Do it now
Clean a document before pasting
- 1.Take a real email or document you want help with.
- 2.Replace names, numbers, addresses and company names with placeholders like [CLIENT] or [AMOUNT].
- 3.Then open your chatbot's settings and find the option about using your data for training.
Words from this lesson
- Chatbot
- A program you talk to in everyday language by typing or speaking, which replies in the same way.
- Training data
- The examples, such as text, images or recordings, that a model learns its patterns from.
- AI literacy
- Knowing enough about how AI works to use it well, spot its mistakes and decide when not to use it.