Critical Generative AI literacy

Most GenAI tools will collect data by default from your prompts and conversations but there are some that won’t. Of those that do collect data, some will allow you to opt out. 

Where data is collected, anything you enter as a prompt may be used by the company that owns the tool to help train it and develop it. This means that generative AI may harvest confidential or personal information. 

For example:

• If you ask a generative AI tool to summarise an interview with a research participant, you will be breaking University regulations and unethically sharing participant information.
• If you were to upload your CV into ChatGPT you’re sharing personal information about yourself with OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT.

Use the same precautions you would with any other online application or website by reviewing the privacy settings and policies:

• Are they easy to find?
• Are they easy to understand? 
• Do they say what the GenAI tool will do with the data you enter?

Don’t enter any sensitive information such as personal or confidential data about yourself or other people.