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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jane Clinton

AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT

Mike Wooldridge with the robot Ai-Da Robot
Mike Wooldridge with the robot Ai-Da ahead of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. Photograph: Kate Green/Getty Images

Confiding in ChatGPT about work gripes or political preferences could come back to bite users, according to an artificial intelligence expert.

Mike Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, says sharing private information or having heart-to-hearts with a chatbot would be “extremely unwise” as anything revealed helps train future versions.

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