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Use AI safely: accuracy, privacy and scams
What AI gets wrong, what not to share, and how to spot a voice-clone or deepfake scam.
AI is a fast first draft, not a source
Chat assistants predict likely-sounding text. Most of the time that is useful; sometimes it invents facts, quotes or links. Treat answers as a starting point and confirm anything important with an official source — a government page, your bank, a professional.
What to keep out of chat windows
- Social Insurance Number, passport, driver's licence numbers
- Passwords, banking and credit card details
- Health records, and anything about clients or co-workers you don't have permission to share
Voice-clone and deepfake scams
Scammers can copy a voice from a short clip and call pretending to be a grandchild, a boss or the bank, asking for urgent money. Agree on a family code word, hang up and call back on a number you already know, and never pay by gift cards or crypto because someone sounds familiar.
Report fraud to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca or 1-888-495-8501.