AI Foundations · Level 1 · Free

What should I never paste into a public AI tool?

Never paste anything you would not want to leave your organisation: customer personal data, passwords and keys, confidential contracts, unreleased financials, trade secrets, or health and HR records. Free public tools may store your input and use it to train future models, so treat the chat box as if it were public.

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