What You Should Never Put Into an AI Chatbot
It's 11:17 p.m., and the house is quiet. A man sits on the couch with his laptop. He's been talking to an AI chatbot for almost an hour.
It started out harmless. He asked for help rewriting an email. He pasted in part of a contract. He uploaded a screenshot from his patient portal because one number worried him.
Then he closed the laptop, and a better question showed up a few minutes too late: how much did I just tell a machine?
You don't need to stop using AI. You just need to use it on purpose.
65 pages: the Never-Paste List, work information, money and identity, health, family and children, files, photos and screenshots, AI as a diary, AI agents, and what to do if you already shared something.
The Four-Corner Check, the Clean-Copy Method, the Abstraction Ladder, the Permission Ladder and the Recovery Triage.
What services such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude say they keep, and the controls you can change.
It isn't legal, medical, financial or cybersecurity advice. Platform features, settings, permissions and data-retention practices change often. Stone & Word Press isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any of these companies.
Product details in this book were last reviewed against each company's official help pages in October 2026. A full Sources & References section lists every page. Published by Stone & Word Press.
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