One of the BIGGEST and DIFFICULT challenges EVERYONE faces, as an individual or as a business/company, is SECURITY & PRIVACY. Don’t believe everything you read, including this article. Companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, even wildcards like Elon Musk’s Grok, and others non-US and non-EU, including China (eg DeepSeek) are FOR PROFIT businesses. We are already seeing tech glitches in ChatGPT that impact security and privacy, including health issues. We are in the INFANCY STAGE w AI … and due to exponential growth in the technology, we can’t keep up. In leveraging AI we provide a lot of sensitive content about ourselves and our businesses. This can be at the prompt level, LLM level, web site apps, smartphone apps, and others (even the network we use to connect and servers where are data are stored). We inherently trust service providers (AI apps) to protect, not disclose or sell, and use our information in ways we don’t agree. Add to this our DIGITAL FOOTPRINT, including SOCIAL MEDIA. This can be data mined by AI. Now add bad actors & data breaches and changing Acceptable Use Policies, Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policies, etc. AI Businesses want to use your data to train models, test their AI apps, grow their business, monetize your information and use for profit, etc… only to change FREE to FEE structures, subscriptions, add tokens for more n differentiation. Slight tweaks in AI service can impact security (Meta has been doing for your, on purpose, to access and monetize). OpenAI and others do the same… it’s GOLD. Think you can create a business idea with ChatGPT or other tool and protect the idea, competitive edge, etc?! It’s a brave new world… and 1984 is here again. Be careful out there. Read the AUP and T&C and DOU.. and PRIVACY POLICY. Pay attention if these change over time. Be aware of things like: Where your data and information is stored, how and who can access and use it, what third parties have access, how they use it, where it is stored, how you can understand what info about you is stored, how it is leveraged, is it sold or other, how you can identify and remove/delete it, retention policies, rights you may give up for FREE and lower tier services.