Do not be afraid to hand data over to AI, but keep your boundaries and check the settings
28 episodes in 12 months · 42 total · first in May 2024
The same information has been sitting in email, messaging apps and the cloud for years anyway, and Google's servers are better protected than your corporate server. So there is no point being afraid to hand data over to AI — I myself am ready for the whole world to see my blood test.
But I do have boundaries: passwords, passport and direct access to the bank — no; agents' access to messaging apps — absolutely not. Turn off the “train on my data” checkbox and look every so often at what the AI has remembered about you.
Standing rule. A standing rule that few people follow: in No. 106 (April 2026), many people I know, even viewers of the podcast, still have not turned off the training checkbox.
Where to start
Turn off “train on my data”, take a look at what the AI remembers about you, and do not give it passwords or access to messaging apps.
Decide in advance which company data may be handed over to AI: your correspondence with it is not protected as confidential.
I do not fully trust the checkboxes: the data is collected anyway, so there is no hundred-percent privacy in any system.
“And I know for sure that they, of all people, are collecting data. I mean, the fact that you don't tick the box there to train on something, to not train, or to not poke around somewhere — that's an absolutely meaningless story”
When I said it
Quotes
“Well, and in reality, for the most part it just makes no difference to me at all. Let the whole world see my blood test data. That's simply nothing at all compared to what other data I'm constantly sending in my email, in correspondence, in WhatsApp, in Telegram, in Notion and everywhere in general.”
“Here's what bothers me: adding it to messengers. I mean, in a messenger, everything to do with the m-- the spreading of my information to outside people is a total ban. I mean, access to that I categorically would not give.”
“And so we talk about it a lot. There are people who watch our episodes. I have a lot of acquaintances, a huge number. Then I open their very own phone, and they still haven't turned that checkbox off.”
“I recommend to everyone, users of Claude Code, oops, no, Claude and Claude Cowork — this, by the way, doesn't apply to Claude Code, right — to go in and look at what's saved about you in terms of memory and how Anthropic makes the decision about what basis to act on.”