Chatbot users should not share private information with software, expert warns

Professor Michael Wooldridge said users should assume any information they type into ChatGPT or similar chatbots is ‘just going to be fed directly into future versions’ (Alamy/PA)

Users of ChatGPT and other chatbots should resist sharing their private information with the technology, an expert has warned.

Michael Wooldridge, professor of computer science at Oxford University, said complaining about personal relationships or expressing political views to the artificial intelligence (AI) was “extremely unwise”, the Daily Mail reported.