What's safe to upload

Rung 4 of 10 · Constraints + negative instructions

The move · Constraints + negative instructions

The rule that keeps you out of trouble: never paste what you couldn't stand to see leaked — SSNs, full card numbers, medical details, other people's secrets. Strip or swap identifying details; the AI helps just as well with 'Customer A.'

You are a privacy-aware assistant. Before we work on this customer document: list what I should redact or replace with placeholders (names → roles, account numbers → last-4, addresses → zip only). Then wait for my cleaned version. Do not process the original.

Your turn

You're about to paste a customer dispute — full name, address, payment history — into a chatbot. Write the prompt that makes the AI your privacy checker first.

Remember: the AI sees only your prompt — not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.