When you enter contents or prompts into AI tools, they ingest, store, and use them to further train the large language models. The information you submitted will be shared with others in some manner. Therefore, you should
- avoid including personal, sensitive, or confidential information such as addresses, emails, birthdays, passwords, etc. in your interactions with AI. For example, if you upload your resume into ChatGPT, you’re sharing personal information about yourself with OpenAI.
- read through any user agreements if you sign up to use a particular tool.
- check the data privacy policy of the tool regularly for how data is collected, used, and stored.