Start experimenting with AI language models in low-stakes places like hobbies or home projects, but first understand the core risk: any data you input could be exposed publicly. After you've grasped that, worry about hallucinations and corrupted outputs.
So I always love to say something really simple, and it's two sentences and you're done. The first one is go and explore on that personal level and play with it where you live, your hobbies, your interests, your stuff at home, whatever. I mean, people do, you know, churches use LLMs at this point for things and synagogues use LLMs and, you know, I mean, anything you care about personally, there's a utility there. But the second sentence is always, and whatever you put into it, understand you could be sharing with the entire internet. That's it. Start with that awareness of what data goes into an LLM. Start there. What do you feed it? Start with that security concern. Then you'll have to address as you progress, you know, things like, well, what about the data it gives back is incorrect? Or what if it's been poisoned? Or what if it, you know, and you can start to get into pickle files are corrupted and, you know, all the other things. But the really the very first and foremost security concern for Joe Average and Jane Average is think about what you put in there.
