Poly AI Privacy and Safety Settings Guide
Character chat invites a particular candour — people write personally to invented people — which makes the safety setup around the Poly AI application worth twenty deliberate minutes. This guide covers the whole surface: account security, what to understand about chat privacy, the content controls that shape your comfort, blocking and reporting, and the boundary that organises everything — real life stays out of the fiction.
Nothing here is technical, and all of it is cheaper than the incident it prevents. Read once, apply in one sitting, and then enjoy the platform behind a locked door you no longer think about.
Where a setting's exact location varies between versions, this guide describes its purpose so you can find it by meaning rather than by memorised taps.
Account Security Basics
A unique password, stored in a password manager, on an account whose email is current and itself secured: that unglamorous trio protects your characters, history, and creations more than any other measure on this page. Enable any additional verification the platform offers.
Recovery is decided on setup day, not on lockout day. Confirm the recovery route works while you do not need it — a five-minute test that converts a future crisis into a procedure.
Understand Chat Privacy Before Writing Freely
Your messages are processed by the platform and its models to produce replies, under the providers' current privacy terms. Read those terms once with your real usage in mind, rather than assuming either total exposure or total secrecy — the truth is a document, and it is shorter than this page.
Write to the understanding: keep real names, addresses, workplaces, and identifying details of real people out of chats. Fiction loses nothing by the omission. It was invented people you came to talk to; let them stay invented, completely.
Content Controls Set to Your Comfort
Set content preferences and filters deliberately rather than inheriting defaults. The platform serves varied audiences and varied tastes, and the controls exist so your corner of it matches your comfort — revisit them when your usage or your household changes.
On shared devices, remember the signed-in app is a household surface. Configure it as a household decision, because the next pair of hands did not make your choices. The features these controls govern are introduced in the Poly AI features guide for new users.
Blocking and Reporting Without Hesitation
Block and report are maintenance tools, not dramatic gestures. Harassment, spam, and rule-breaking content should meet them promptly and without engagement; attention is the currency such behaviour spends, and the block button is how you stop paying it.
Where evidence matters, screenshot before blocking. Specific reports — links, dates, the behaviour at issue — are the ones platforms can act on, and writing them is a small public service to every user who comes after you.
Your Creations and Your Rights
Original characters you publish are your creative work shared on the platform's terms. Keep your master notes — full definitions and private lore — in your own files, publishing what the chat needs rather than everything you have written.
Imitation in spirit is the tax of any public commons; copying in substance is a reportable offence on most platforms. Report with specifics and let the process work, rather than conducting a public campaign that mostly advertises the copy. The commons you are protecting includes your own future discoveries — finding and discovering characters in Poly AI depends on it staying healthy.
Children, Households, and Shared Screens
This genre of platform is built for adults, with controls to match. If younger people share your devices, the honest safeguards are separate accounts where the platform allows, the device's own parental tools, and a signed-out app when your session ends.
No in-app setting substitutes for those structural choices, and this guide will not pretend otherwise. Safety for a household is an architecture, not a toggle, and most of the architecture lives at the device and account level.
The Twenty-Minute Setup
Assemble the page into one sitting: password unique and stored, recovery verified, extra verification on, privacy terms read once, content controls set to your comfort, personas and character notes audited for real personal details, and any shared-device arrangements decided.
Repeat twice a year. Safety is a light routine kept, not a state achieved, and twenty minutes is the honest price of keeping it.
Protect the real account, the real identity, and the real household; let the invented people flourish inside that protection. The boundary does not restrict the fiction — it is what makes the fiction safe to enjoy for years.
Do the setup today, while it is a choice. It is only ever urgent on the day it stops being one.
Extend the audit to your whole AI shelf once a year: accounts, credentials, personas, and the personal details that creep into fiction over time. Tools accumulate faster than habits, and one afternoon that reviews all of them is the cheapest strong safety measure available to a private person.
Teach the boundary to anyone you bring to the platform — a friend, a partner, a curious relative — in your first conversation about it, not after their first month. 'Invented people, real account; keep the real out' is a sentence that prevents more incidents than any setting either of you will ever toggle.
