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Data and Training Basics

Learn to understand the difference between training data, prompts, outputs and saved conversation data.

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What you will learn

1. Explain how data and training basics fits into safe, practical AI use

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2. Apply understand the difference between training data, prompts, outputs and saved conversation data

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3. Recognise the main quality or safety risk in this topic

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4. Record evidence of a checked and useful result

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Step-by-step practice

Step 1. Read the purpose of Data and Training Basics and identify the result you need.
Step 2. Prepare a harmless example, approved source or fictional data set.
Step 3. Apply the page method to understand the difference between training data, prompts, outputs and saved conversation data.
Step 4. Check the result for accuracy, privacy, clarity, fairness and usefulness.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Draw a four-box flow showing what you enter, what the service processes, what it returns and what may be stored.
Safe and responsible practice: AI output can sound confident and still be wrong. Treat it as a draft until you have checked important claims.

Practical activity

Complete and record this task

Draw a four-box flow showing what you enter, what the service processes, what it returns and what may be stored.

Good-practice checklist

Name the task before choosing a tool
Use safe sample information
Notice uncertainty and limitations
Keep a human responsible
Complete the practical activity for data and training basics
Record what changed after review
Check the result on a mobile device
Ask a qualified person when consequences are significant

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