It's happened more times than I wish to count that I pasted my personal information into a prompt. I've grown more trusting of the models; why not share my hopes, fears and dreams if it's going to give me a more personalized response?

But then comes the gasp when I accidentally paste an API key, IP address, or government ID — yikes, who's going to steal my data!

The model will kindly tell me I shouldn't have done that and to promptly delete it — how nice of it. However, while that's a good prediction of what someone would say, that data is now with a third party. I trust they have controls in place, but breaches happen and most are using your conversations with their models for training their next models unless you opt-out.

So how can I protect my private information when using AI? And how can public sector and healthcare organizations, often the information custodians, ensure PII remains private as they start to use AI in and around my data?

I have used AI tools for research, reading, writing and coding, but I had not spent much time using them for translation.

In Canada, bilingual content is mandatory for many public sector and healthcare organizations, and I have seen the large effort it takes to make English and French content accessible. A whole production line to get the English and French copy just right that moves through the project team, Communications, Translations, leadership and more.

Kudos to the federal government implementing GCtranslate, an AI tool for languages translation. Presumably an LLM that has been fine-tuned on Canada's two official languages.

How much time would it save if every Canadian organization had GCtranslate? Could we empower Canadians to learn our two official languages if they had access to GCtranslate?

My monthly bill in AI subscriptions is probably more than I wish to admit. I have ventured between ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and back to Codex/ChatGPT.

I still use Codex for project work, but my favourite tool in the AI toolbox is SolveIt. So much so that I moved my blog from Coaching the Machine to here, in SolveIt, where I wrote and published this post!