General Tips
As with all emerging technologies, AI has benefits and challenges. We encourage you to be mindful of your use of AI. Some tips for you:
- Take care with the data you provide to AI. Avoid providing personal information for yourself or others.
- Be aware of the AI tool’s settings. Disable the tool from learning from your entries if possible.
- Validate its outputs. Current generative AI tools do not think and will often include misleading, incorrect or problematic responses.
If you tend to post your work online, we recommend taking the following steps:
- Read the website’s terms of service to see if the site permits data mining
- Avoid putting your work into a generative AI tool with unclear or lax data privacy policies
- Consider adding a robot.txt file to limit web crawlers from accessing your site
Note: This may also affect the way that your website appears in search results
Protecting your Writing
- Writer, programmer, and tech consultant Alex Reisner developed a searchable database of books included in Books3, which is at the heart of the Authors Guild v. OpenAI court case.
- Changing characters in works, like replacing the letter “a” with an “а” from the Cyrillic alphabet will make it more difficult for language models to be trained on your work, but it will also render the text unreadable for anyone using a screen reader.
Protecting your Images
Protecting your Audio
Adapted from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Libraries and Technology Services
