A whole payroll sheet
Mark pastes his team's whole payroll sheet into AI to work out bonuses, and only afterwards wonders where this data goes.
WHERE IT GOES
Stored on servers
Bit explains: the conversation is sent to the provider's servers, and is usually saved in your history.
TRAINING
It may be used for training
With personal accounts, many apps can use your chats to train new models unless you turn it off. Settings usually has a switch for this, under privacy or data controls.
DON'T PASTE
Things you shouldn't paste
Never paste passwords, OTP codes, ID numbers, customer data or company secrets into a personal AI account.
HOW TO DO IT
Hide details before pasting
The safe way: hide details before pasting, and replace real names with Employee A, B, C. AI still calculates correctly without knowing who's who. Use temporary chat mode, or a company account that promises not to use data for training.
This article is based on the video Where does your data go when you chat with AI? from the Mark học AI channel. Watch the video (in Vietnamese) to see the animations.