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Patch’s curious corner

Keep the adventure. Skip the private details.

Your imagination has plenty of room. Your personal information can stay out of it.

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Keep the fun fictional

Use pretend details, keep private information out, and ask a trusted adult for help.

About 41 seconds · AI-generated Patch voice · Made-up teaching example.
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Let's make a silly story. Our hero is a pretend purple penguin, on an imaginary moon.

Keep real names, photos, your school, home, location, and passwords out of AI chats.

Ask a trusted adult before trying a new tool. An adult should use made-up details when demonstrating an outside AI tool.

If an answer feels strange or scary, stop and tell that adult. You are not in trouble for asking for help.

Made-up details are a smart place to start. Keep private things private, and keep the fun fictional!

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The pretend-detail detective

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Help Patch choose details for fictional activities. No typing and no real personal details needed.

Hear Patch’s short reminder. Your grown-up can read the full cards below.

Spoken words: Use only pretend details. Choose what is okay to share in a made-up story.

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Choose one detail for a pretend space adventure: your real home address, your school name, or a castle on the Moon.

The castle is the made-up detail. You can invent places, characters, and hobbies without sharing someone’s real information.

If an online activity asks for a password, a private picture, or a secret from your grown-up, stop and ask a trusted adult for help.

Your choices stay in this tab. There is no score to save, no ranking, and no account. Start again resets this game; closing the page clears its game state.

A story does not need your real address.

Make up a name, a place, and a character. Keep real names, addresses, passwords, school details, and pictures of other people out of experiments.

Ask a grown-up before trying an outside AI tool. “Private” settings do not mean you can safely share anything. The adult should check the tool’s rules and what happens to information you send.

Go deeper: small clues can add up

A first name, a team badge, and a regular location might reveal more together than each detail does alone. Other people’s information deserves care too. Make-believe practice avoids needing those details.