If you care about privacy, don’t feed your own personal information into a chatbot, which—among other concerns—could use it to train AI tools. Employees, though, mostly don’t have a choice.
A new, multibillion-dollar industry is dedicated to selling and buying work files and emails to companies seeking fresh sources of data to improve their AI models, and it’s only getting bigger. Data privacy laws tend to focus on consumer protections and rarely consider the rights of workers who create that information. What happens when your doctor’s notes, employee contracts, and Slack gossip are fed into the machine?
