What not to paste
Treat any prompt as something that leaves your device, because it does. Do not paste credentials, API keys, personal data belonging to other people, unreleased financials, or anything covered by an NDA or by health and payment regulations. Redact names and identifiers first; a model rarely needs them to do the work.
On this platform your runs are stored against your own account and protected by row-level security, and we do not sell your data or use it to train public models — see the Privacy Policy for detail. That is a reason to be comfortable, not a reason to skip redaction.
Who owns the output
The position varies by jurisdiction and keeps moving. The safe working assumptions are: you are responsible for what you publish; purely machine-generated work may attract thin or no copyright protection in some countries; and output that closely reproduces a recognisable existing work is a risk regardless of how it was produced. Substantially editing and adding your own judgement improves both the work and your position.
Disclosure
Disclose when the reader's decision depends on who wrote it — academic submissions, journalism, reviews, testimonials, medical or legal communication. You do not need a disclaimer on a first-draft internal memo. The test is whether a reasonable reader would feel misled to learn a model produced it.
High-stakes domains
For medical, legal, financial and safety-critical work, AI output is a starting draft for a qualified human, never the deliverable. This is not lawyer-speak: these are precisely the domains where a fluent, confident, wrong answer causes real harm, and where models are least able to signal their own uncertainty.
A five-line policy
Adopt this as-is if you have nothing written down:
- No confidential, personal or regulated data in prompts.
- Every factual claim is verified by a human before publication.
- High-stakes output is reviewed by a qualified professional.
- AI involvement is disclosed where readers would care.
- Generated images and text are checked for third-party rights before commercial use.
Our Acceptable Use Policy and Disclaimer set out what is and is not permitted on this platform.