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How to hide your sensitive info (for real) when using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots

Fast Company Tech Michael Grothaus April 18, 2026
How to hide your sensitive info (for real) when using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots
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# Summary If you're going to share sensitive documents with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, you need to remove personal information first—but doing it wrong (like using a PDF highlighter tool) doesn't actually protect you, since someone could still recover the hidden text. The article explains the right way to truly redact your data so that information like account numbers, medical details, and names can't be recovered by the AI company or in case of a future data breach.

Like many, I’ve never met a chatbot I trust completely. Not only do they have a propensity to hallucinate by making up facts, but you can never be sure what their parent companies do with the information you provide. Most AI companies say they use your data to further train their models, but anonymi

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