'It can be used against you' warn experts who say you should never give an AI your name

THERE ARE some things you should never tell an AI chatbot – and the first is your real name.

Cyber ​​experts have warned against passing information to chatbots, even if it seems harmless.

Chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT are designed to make your life easier.

They can answer complex questions and even complete tasks – in an uncannily human way.

So it may be tempting from time to time to reveal things about yourself, including your name, but you should avoid this at all costs.

“Don't send personal data to a chatbot,” Kaspersky's Stan Kaminsky warned.

“No passwords, passport or bank card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, names or other personal information belonging to you, your company or your customers should enter chats with an AI.

“You can replace these in your request with asterisks or 'MESSAGE'.”

That's because the information you send to a artificial intelligence chatbot may not always remain private.

For starters, ChatGPT itself stores dialogues that can then be reused to resolve technical issues or prevent service violations.

And your conversations can even be reviewed by human moderators.

Your chats can also be used in the future to train new versions of GPT – or other alternatives.

There's a chance that a bug could cause your conversations to leak, or even cause the chatbot to unintentionally share your data with another user.

“Remember, anything you write to a chatbot can be used against you,” Kaminsky said.

Also avoid uploading documents to chatbots.

Many chatbots let you do this, although some require add-ons.

And while it might help you get your work done, it's a really bad idea.

“Don't upload documents. Thanks to numerous plugins and add-ons, you can use chatbots for document processing,” Kaminsky advised.

“The temptation can be great to upload a working document to get a summary, for example.

“However, if you carelessly upload a multi-page document, you risk leaking confidential data, intellectual property or a commercial secret, such as the release date of a new product or the entire team's payroll.”

It is best to have your conversations with chatbots as anonymously if possible.