5 pieces of information you should not tell "ChatGPT"... What are they?

An advisory report reviews five categories of information that are recommended not to be shared with smart chatbots like ChatGPT, warning of privacy risks, identity theft, and fraud.

An advisory report from HuffPost, citing warnings from cybersecurity and privacy experts about the dangers of oversharing personal and sensitive information with AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude. The report outlines five main categories of information not to share: personally identifiable information (full name, address, phone number, official document numbers), intimate personal details (thoughts, behavior, psychological state, relationships), medical information (medical records containing identifying details), confidential work information (internal company data, secret reports, protected code), and financial information (salary statements, bank accounts, credit card data). The report cites a study by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI that analyzed the privacy policies of six developers, concluding that user conversations may be used for model development. It conveys warnings that sharing such data increases risks of identity theft, phishing, and blackmail.