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What your chatbot remembers about you

AI assistants can keep your conversations, and some build a running profile to personalise answers. Here is what that means and how to stay in control.

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  1. 4 min

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    The voice on the phone sounds like your daughter. Use the two-question check.

    Scammers can imitate a familiar voice from a short recording. Two simple questions, agreed in advance, are enough to stop most attempts.

  2. 5 min

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    Five tells of a deepfake video — and why you should not rely on them

    Odd blinking and blurry edges used to give fakes away. As the tools improve, the smarter question is not “does it look real?” but “who posted it first?”

  3. 5 min

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    What your chatbot remembers about you

    AI assistants can keep your conversations, and some build a running profile to personalise answers. Here is what that means and how to stay in control.

  4. 6 min

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    When AI can click the buttons: a plain guide to autonomous agents

    An AI agent can browse, fill in forms and complete tasks on your behalf. That is useful, and it means mistakes become actions rather than words.

  5. 5 min

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    AI rules, in plain English: what regulation is trying to do

    Most AI rule-making comes down to the same handful of goals: know the risk, test before release, tell people the truth, and name who is responsible.

  6. 3 min

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    The “urgent invoice” has better grammar now

    Scam emails are now fluent, polite and personalised. The reliable warning signs are about behaviour, not typos.

  7. 3 min

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    Before you upload that photo: a 60-second privacy check

    Photos carry faces, places and sometimes hidden location data. Four quick questions help you decide what is safe to share with an AI tool.

  8. 4 min

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    Who checks the AI? A beginner’s guide to safety testing

    Before powerful AI systems are released they are increasingly put through structured tests. Here is what those tests can and cannot tell us.

  9. 2 min

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    A family safe word: the low-tech defence against high-tech fakes

    You do not need special software to resist voice and video impersonation. You need a word that only your household knows.