TechRadar Artificial Intelligence Week 2025
This article is part TechRadar Artificial Intelligence Week 2025. Covering the basics of AI, we'll show you how to get the most out of tools like ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude, as well as dive into features, news and key talking points in the AI world.
While chatbots can be useful for some tasks, they can also compromise your security and privacy in others. If you are new to the field of artificial intelligence, here are some tips on the dos and don'ts of using chatbots, e.g. ChatGPT, Twins and others.
Here are 10 basic dos and don'ts when using chatbot.
1. DO: Ask AI to help you brainstorm and make decisions.
If you've reached a crossroads in your life and need to make a decision, whether it's buying a new car or moving house, describe the situation and ask ChatGPT to create a handy list of pros and cons.
While you don't need the AI to make important decisions for you, it can be very good at communicating different aspects of a decision you need to make and this will help you see the big picture.
2. DON'T: Use AI to cheat your homework.
It is not a good idea for children to use ChatGPT to find answers to homework questions. Firstly, it's a scam, and secondly, it can be very obvious to teachers who exactly is using ChatGPT, and if you get caught, there could be serious consequences.
The same goes for college or university students, although the consequences of being detained can be even more severe and possibly result in failure of coursework.
Using ChatGPT in Training mode However, as a tutor to help you study, this is a great idea.
3. DO: Use it for proofreading
Chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini are excellent at proofreading your written work. Either cut and paste your written work, or export a document from something like Google Use the drive as a Word document and upload it to ChatGPT, then ask, “Can you proofread this?”
If the text is short, then the AI will simply present you with a more refined version of the document. If it is long, stylistic points will be discussed, as well as the structure of the document. In both cases, he can provide you with a Word document that tracks changes, or simply make suggested changes.
4. DON'T: Believe everything the AI says without checking.
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Large language models such as ChatGPT can be useful. In fact, they often want to be too much useful, and it forces them to just make things up. This happens so often that it has its own name: AI hallucinations. AI chatbots can hallucinate facts out of nowhere. They may hallucinate scientific research, court cases, or simply solve math problems incorrectly.
The hallucination rate in OpenAI's most current model, ChatGPT-5, is around 1.4% (according to Vectara), which isn't much, but it still means you need to double-check everything it tells you is true, just to be sure.
5. DO: Use AI to learn new things.
Having access to artificial intelligence like Gemini or ChatGPT is like having a personal tutor on your mobile or laptop who can teach you anything you want to learn. The world is your oyster, so pick a subject and start studying.
If you want, you can have ChatGPT create a program designed to teach you something over an extended period of time – just ask. He's not as good at teaching physical skills, although he will point you to relevant ones. YouTube videos showing how to do something, especially if you ask for it.
6. Don't let kids use AI on their own
According to OpenAI: “ChatGPT is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and we require children between the ages of 13 and 18 to obtain parental consent before using ChatGPT.”
If you are using an AI chatbot for a child under 13, you, the adult, must interact with it, and we still recommend monitoring children over 13 who are using it.
So, if you want to use ChatGPT to create a bedtime story for your kids or let them play a game with it, then it's fine as long as you are a human interacting with the chatbot.
7. DO: Use AI to Generate Code
One of the strengths of AI is that it can write code—or you can upload existing code and ask it to help complete it. This works especially well in Agent Mode in ChatGPT where you can ask it to write the application code in the background as it may take some time.
This is useful when you need something very specific that isn't available elsewhere, or you just want to create a Space Invaders style game. Chatbots can also write code for more professional situations, but it's worth having an expert check for accuracy as they can make mistakes.
8. DON'T: Give AI your credit card number.
Aside from entering your payment information when you sign up for a Plus or Pro account, we never recommend that you enter your credit card information into a live chatbot chat.
It's highly unlikely that an AI chatbot will ever ask you for your credit card details in a chat, but you should certainly never offer them. As AI evolves, so will the security threats that take advantage of it and our acceptance of it, and it is possible that some malicious code could hack an AI chatbot or even imitate it.
9. DO: Use AI to Play Fun Games
Chatbots are great for gaming. To get started, simply have them play a game of Tic Tac Toe. In fact, he can play very simple board games such as chess, checkers, Connect Four, Battleship and quizzes, which are especially interesting.
You can even have the AI create an RPG text adventure game in the style of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books. Using the GPT menu (on the left menu bar) you can find the GPT for the specific game you want to play, for example Dungeons and Dragons, For example.
10. DO NOT: Rely on it for medical advice.
If you want to study a specific disease or get it to explain what doctors are telling you in a simple and understandable way, then AI can be very useful. However, it goes without saying that AI is not a qualified doctor.
AI is great at explaining medical terms, but that doesn't mean it can diagnose you based on a list of your symptoms. Again, the general advice to consider ChatGPT and other chatbots as a great way to brainstorm ideas and discuss topics is correct, but remember that you should always seek the opinion of a medical professional on medical matters.
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