Hey all, until now I’m being super reluctant about using any AI tool. On top of all the privacy issues it obviously comes with it (I can’t believe there are people talking to ChatGpt and literally teaching them how to impersonated!), I have a feeling that it only does jobs that you are capable of doing with other tools, but since it looks like a person and not a computer, people start to fantasize that it will do everything they don’t know or don’t want to do it and become numb and stupid. But, maybe there are some uses for it and at my office we will soon have access to Claude, so I want to explore it and check for myself. My question is what precautions should I take and what limits should I put on my usage? I thought about creating a new email account just for signing up, but obviously that’s nothing nowadays.
You can redact sensitive data before sending it, there are tools for that, i know one named privatiser.
Best to not create an account if you don’t have to, ppq.ai and NanoGPT are proxy services that claim to protect your privacy. Or use the free tier of big services with a vpn and the usual privacy tools.
Other than that, explore, enjoy and don’t tell it anything you wouldn’t tell a policeman. Ask it about a bird you have seen recently, or a phrase in a foreign language that has always confused you. They’re good in things that are hard to search the normal way.