Data you type into AI chatbots is usually theirs
Most AI chatbot providers can do almost whatever they want with what you enter. Would you be okay if it went public?
Data you type into most AI chatbots becomes the provider's to use under their terms. Training, product improvement, retention - read the actual product UI and the contract, not the vibe.
Would you be fine if that paste showed up in a training set, a support ticket, or a future leak?
Most products bury this. Kudos to Google Gemini for putting it in your face instead of page 47 of a privacy policy almost nobody reads:
Treat consumer chatbots like a shared notebook you do not control. Work data belongs in a contracted tenant with written retention rules - or not in a chatbot at all. I split model vs service risk in Compare LLM Model vs LLM Service.
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