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Is it safe to share personal information with a chatbot?

Is it safe to share personal information with a chatbot?
AI tools generally train themselves on users’ interactions with them. (Image: NZME)
The Wall Street Journal
By Heidi MitchellImagine you’ve pasted your notes from a meeting with your radiologist into an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot and asked it to summarise them. A stranger later prompts that same generative AI chatbot to enlighten them about their cancer concerns, and some of your supposedly private conversation is spat out to that user as part of a response.Concerns about such potential breaches of privacy are very much top of mind these days for many people as the popularity of generative-AI chatbots spreads. The big question here is...

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