Tech Friday: Personal privacy when using Artificial Intelligence
Posted By RichC on June 6, 2025
When you supply personal data to ChatGPT, it may be accessed by OpenAI’s AI trainers, service providers, law enforcement (if legally required), or third-party apps (if integrated). Data is stored and potentially used for training unless you opt out, and breaches or model outputs could expose it further.
Other AI clients follow similar patterns, though some (e.g., Grok, Claude, NotebookLM, etc) have stricter default privacy settings. To protect your data, avoid sharing sensitive information, opt out of training, use privacy modes, and review provider policies carefully. Always assume that any data you input could be seen by humans or stored indefinitely, even with safeguards in place.
Although I’ve tried to solve my server problem with the help of artificial intelligence, it has yet to help me make any inroads. Time to sift through the logs.
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