I had to take mandatory AI safety training at work. One thing that they kept stressing was how raw data shouldn’t just be handed over to AI tools.
If you wanted to analyze customer orders, you should first redact the dataset by removing customer names, addresses, and any other identifiable information before giving it to the AI to ensure company secrets aren’t leaked.
Is the tool so amazing that it’s worth the risk of exposing trade secrets every time you use it? My company leadership says yes!


I’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.