Lion Cipher Lab
Protect your data when you use AI chatbots
- AI Security
- Beginner
- ~30 min
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
For most people, the way they meet AI is a chat box in a browser -- and almost nobody stops to ask where those words go. But everything you type into a hosted chatbot leaves your machine and lands on someone else's servers, where it may be retained, reviewed, and in some products used to train future models unless you say otherwise. That is fine for a recipe question and a serious problem for a client's data, a password, or a snippet of proprietary code. The skill this lab builds is not paranoia; it is literacy: being able to tell what a given product actually does with your input, change the…
What you'll learn
- understanding AI data handling
- reading privacy and data-control settings
- opting out of model training
- recognizing what not to share with a chatbot
- consumer vs enterprise AI terms
- choosing local vs hosted for privacy
Steps in this lab
- Where your words actually go
- Find and read the data controls
- Consumer chat and business/API are not the same product
- The short list of what never gets pasted
- Why this counts as real security, not just etiquette
- When running a local model is the privacy-preserving choice
- Do it now: review, opt out, and write your rule
- What you built here, and the instinct to keep