What you shouldn’t tell the AI Chatbots?
It is said that every convenience has a hidden cost. And in this world of AI, we are getting convenience by keeping our privacy at stack. This article highlights what you shouldn’t be conversing about with any AI bots. The talk of the town is how to safeguard your sensitive information in a world where data breaches could be done at a snap owing to tech innovations. Let’s unpack the ways by which you could avoid your privacy breach that could lead to many negative consequences.
The crux
Your conversation is the fuel for chatbots. The more you interact with chatbots the more you are feeding with more information into what is going on with us. Based on your real-time experiences, the chatbots curate algorithms that are saved and accordingly, solutions are offered to others. Hence, be very specific about what you share with any AI-based chatbot. All of your conversations help the system to fine-tune the AI algorithm. Just for instance, ChatGPT is the new hype in the market. If you ask it to suggest some personal medications, then any sort of disclosure by you helps OpenAI’s algorithms to be altered as per the situation. The same is the case with Google’s Gemini where all the data is being used to rain the AI behind it.
Deriving knowledge from existing information pool
Experts say that the most popular AI chatbots are vastly deriving the answers from troves of valuable information such as articles, blogs, news, or social media interactions. From this diverse pool of information, AI takes the relevant information and generates personalized responses. And there have been several instances where a huge data collection has happened even without a proper disclaimer of the same or any explicit consent. This has ignited a big debate on the internet on data privacy concerns. And, after the data is uploaded in the system, extracting it or removing it by any means is impossible.
The solution
Well, there is the good news it is an avoidable situation. One can easily control this situation while moving forward. Not every organization ensures this feature, but many AI-led platforms do offer options to prevent your conversations from being used for AI training. One other solution is to adjust the settings to access the conversation’s time. Such as, Google allows interactions with Gemini to be saved for 18 months for users above 18 years. However, any user can reduce or increase the limit at their convenience. In the face of human reviewers going through the chats, Google shares a disclaimer to avoid sharing confidential information with the bots that are meant to be kept secret.
Likewise, MetaAI which has been integrated into Instagram, Facebook, and now Whatsapp claims that it doesn’t utilize info from private chats to train its Machine Learning system. However, it could be deriving information from your social media posts and comment sections. It is better to avoid sharing posts or comments that could cause a ruckus in the future.
