🚨 There’s a big, AI-shaped elephant in the room 🚨

Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more posts written by (and directed toward) small business owners about the importance of using AI tools like ChatGPT for everything, from customer support to contracts to comms.

They're really leaning in on “If you’re not using AI, you’re already behind.”

And with everything going on, I get the fear and the appeal (who doesn’t want a digital assistant that works 24/7 and thinks you’re brilliant no matter what?). But what I haven’t seen is a post that talks about the privacy implications of all this.

➡️ What you post on ChatGPT isn't private. Your questions, your files -- you are sharing the content with OpenAI. Your data is stored and used to train future models.

➡️ That means if you’re pasting in sensitive info (like client contracts or investor updates) you might be giving that data away without realizing it.

Big companies have legal teams and data governance policies. They use paid versions, offline models, private deployments. But individuals and small businesses sometimes aren’t aware that there’s a difference.

That’s exactly why I started AINovva—to help small and mid-sized companies build with AI and protect what matters most.

Let’s build smarter.

Let’s build safer.