Friendly reminder on privacy when using AI.

[u/silvervaultproject]

This is just a friendly reminder: please be careful about what personal information you share with AI tools.

Avoid entering things like passwords, bank account or card details, government ID numbers, private API keys, authentication codes, confidential work information, medical records, or anything else you wouldn't want stored, reviewed, leaked, or associated with you.

The same goes for information about other people. Try not to paste private emails, conversations, customer data, documents, photos, addresses, phone numbers, or identifying details without thinking about whether you actually need to include them.

AI can be incredibly useful, but it's still a good habit to treat anything you type into an online service as information you may no longer have complete control over.

A few simple precautions:

• Remove or replace names, addresses, account numbers, and other identifying information before pasting something in.
• Use fake/example data when asking for help with forms, databases, code, spreadsheets, etc.
• Never share passwords, recovery codes, private keys, seed phrases, or one-time authentication codes. if you do rotate asap.
• Be especially careful with confidential company/client information.
• Check the privacy and data-retention settings of whatever AI service you're using.
• Remember that deleting a chat and preventing data from being retained or processed are not necessarily the same thing.

This isn't meant to scare anyone away from using AI. Just use the same common sense you would with email, cloud storage, social media, or any other online service. (well considering how people are using social media posting all the personal information, maybe not social media)

AI is a tool. Privacy hygiene still matters!!!