How to Keep Your Data Private While Using AI Tools
How to Keep Your Data Private While Using AI Tools Introduction If you’ve used ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini recently, you’ve likely typed a question, pasted a paragraph, or uploaded a file without thinking twice. Most people assume these conversations are private, like a search engine query. But that assumption is wrong. Many popular AI tools store your conversations and can use them to train future models unless you change a few settings. A recent Wall Street Journal piece on maintaining privacy in the AI age highlighted how quickly personal data can leak into training datasets, and the steps that are rarely explained to users. ...