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How AI Echoes Your Emotions (and Why That Matters)

2025-12-03

AI can feel empathetic, but it isn't. This article explains how generative AI mirrors your emotions, validates your fears, and can lead to 'doomchatting', a powerful emotional feedback loop that causes oversharing and heightened anxiety. Learn how AI creates the illusion of understanding and how to protect yourself.

AI First Contact: The Day You Met AI Without Realizing It

2025-12-03

You didn’t meet AI when ChatGPT launched. Your true first contact happened years earlier through social media algorithms that learned your behavior. This article explains how recommendation engines shaped you long before generative AI arrived, and why understanding that history is essential for staying safe today.

Who's Training Who? How AI Quietly Rewrites Your Habits

2025-12-02

AI tools feel helpful, but over time they can subtly rewrite your habits, voice, and decision-making. Learn how AI mirroring and feedback loops influence you—and how to keep control with safe prompting habits.

What Your Prompts Reveal About You

2025-12-01

Your writing style is more identifiable than your name. Learn how your Linguistic Fingerprint, oversharing habits, and the 'Feelings Room' can expose deeply personal data -even in incognito mode. A cybersecurity guide for everyday AI users.

The Confession Window: Why AI Makes Us Overshare Without Realizing It

2025-11-30

AI feels safe, warm, and nonjudgmental—but that illusion creates a Confession Window where people overshare deeply personal information. Learn why your Personal Intimate Data (PID) is the ultimate password, why it can never be revoked, and how to protect yourself when using AI.

The Illusion of Privacy: What AI Really Knows About You

2025-11-29

Most people think privacy is about what they choose to share. But with AI, the real danger is what you've revealed without realizing it. In this article I reveal how AI systems aggregate your intimate data, metadata, and behavior patterns into a detailed personal profile you never meant to reveal

The One Big Bucket Problem: The Hidden Cybersecurity Risk in Generative AI

2025-11-29

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and ClaudeAI aren't built with the same data protections we've relied on for decades. When you share financial, medical, or personal details with these systems, everything is blended into one big bucket without separation, safeguards, or compliance boundaries. This breaks the fundamental security principles that keep your information safe. In this article, I explain why this architecture creates a new class of cybersecurity risk and what you can do to protect yourself.

Is This Really AI? The Misleading Name Behind Today's Most Powerful Tools

2025-11-26

Everyone calls today's systems 'artificial intelligence.' But generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude aren't intelligent—they're pattern predictors that sound like experts. This article breaks down the misunderstanding, the security risks, and how to use AI safely without overtrusting it.

Losing Someone to AI: How to Help When a Loved One Trusts AI Too Much

2025-11-23

Many families are discovering the painful reality of losing someone to AI. When a loved one begins trusting a chatbot more than real people, it can damage relationships, decisions, and safety. This guide explains why AI feels so convincing and offers practical strategies to rebuild trust and restore balance.

How to Use AI For Tax Review Safely

2025-11-13

For three years straight, my wife and I owed Uncle Sam over $2,000 at tax time. Using AI for taxes helped me figure out why. I'm not a tax professional. We do our taxes using...

How to Use AI For Estate Planning Safely

2025-11-12

Like many others, my wife and I delayed our estate planning. We have family in multiple countries, we coudln't decide on a guardian for my daughter, it was just overwhelming...

What I Wish I Knew About AI

2025-11-12

When I started using AI, I wish someone had warned me about a certain side effect. In the Harry Potter series, the Mirror of Erised would show viewers what they want or...