Members' guide · Settings and safety

When an admin uses an AI assistant

What an owner's or admin's AI assistant can read about you, what it never sees, and who receives it.

Your community's owners can connect their own AI assistant (for example Claude or ChatGPT) to your community's server, to help them look after it: to ask what needs them, or to summarise the open reports. Admins can too: they add your community's address to their assistant and approve it on their phone. They connect it themselves, and they can disconnect it at any time. The other owners are told when one is connected.

What it can read about you

An assistant sees much less than an admin does in Settings. Your community's server decides what it gets, not the assistant.

• If someone reports you or your post, and the admin asks for the report's words: the reason given, your post's title and description, and your BeanPool name. Never who made the report.
• If you ask to join, and the admin asks for the messages: the name and message you sent with your request, and the community you said you came from. Never your photo or your key.
• Totals for the whole community, such as how many members there are and how many Beans are in circulation. Never your balance.

What it never sees

Your messages and chats, your balance and trades, your keys, your address, your photos, the names list, and who reported anyone. It can't change anything about you: it can't remove you, mute you, take down your post or answer your join request. Those are done by people. An admin does them in Settings or on their phone, and a join request is answered in the app by any member who may invite.

An assistant can suggest what to do about a report, for example to keep your post or take it down. Nothing happens unless the admin it works for reads the report and approves; anything you hear about it comes from your community's moderators, as always.

Who receives it

What the assistant reads goes to the company that runs it, as when you paste something into an AI chat yourself. The server sends a report's words or a join message only when the admin's assistant asks for them, marked as words from a member and not instructions.

If you'd rather your report or your join message wasn't read by an AI, ask your admins how they use theirs.

Related

• What the admins can seeIn a community whose admins keep a names list: what it holds about you, who can read it, what your community's server keeps, and what being confirmed means.
• Reporting a problemTell your community's moderators about a post, an event, a Pulse post, a project, an enterprise or a message in a group's chat.
• Your privacyWhat others can see about you, and the settings that control it.
• Joining BeanPoolTwo ways in: a community, with an invite from a member, or the global community when it is open, with 12 secret words or one sign-in. Asking a community to let you in, and how to invite someone else.

The same guide is in the BeanPool app, and works there without a connection: open Settings, then "Help & how it works" under BeanPool. Every other rule, guide and manual is in the Help Centre. Guide version 157.