Text, images, and other content you add to generative AI tools may be stored and used by the tools as part of future feedback.  This can be a concern when sharing information that is confidential, under copyright, or that you may not want to redistributed or used in answers to other generative AI users’ questions. 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

Campus Note: The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Technology Services department provides a list of approved resources on their Generative AI Resources page. Any application not on their list is not approved and should not be used with University solutions or devices. 

• 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. 

• “Have I been trained?” can help you assess if your work has been used to train AI models. 
• Consider using Glaze or WebGlaze to disrupt the AI training process.

• Nightshade not only protects your art but also poisons AI models.

• AntiFake is a python program that introduces noise into audio files to prevent deepfakes. 
• The Federal Tade Commission (FTC) has been monitoring the impact of voice cloning on news agencies and the entertainment industry. In November 2023, they hosted a challenge to help detect and evaluate cloned voices.