WIRED — How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
A practical guide to using AI chatbots without handing over everything you tell them, built on interviews with Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matt Green and Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike. It explains why a chatbot is a better honeypot for your secrets than text messages ever were — most are set by default to store what you say, with few limits on training, sharing, or handing it to a court — and walks through the options that actually reduce the exposure.
Why I recommend it: The clearest plain-language explanation of why this matters, and the best thing to read before you pick any of the tools above. Marlinspike's line is the useful one: the private things people used to text are now the things they tell an AI, and the protections have not caught up. One flag — WIRED meters free articles, so if you hit a sign-in wall, tell me and I will note it on this entry.