Where Your Prompts Actually Go

You pasted the contract into a chat window. Now what? We trace the real path of a prompt through consumer tools, enterprise tiers, and API endpoints, and explain what each tier actually promises in writing.

In this episode

Consumer, enterprise, API: three different deals

The same model, three very different data agreements. What each one says about retention and training.

Retention versus training

They are separate promises and people conflate them constantly. Why the difference matters for regulated work.

The disclosure question

When you should tell a client, a colleague, or a reader that a machine was involved — and what a useful disclosure actually says.

A workable personal policy

Three tiers of material, and a rule for each, that you can hold in your head.

The question is never "is it safe". It is "what am I promising the person whose information this is".

Mentioned

• The full written companion piece in the articles archive
• Module material on this topic in the AI Fluency programme

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