So whats the issue here? Ohh no my private documents are in plain text on my private computer fucking morons.
There really wasn’t an expectation of privacy with this. This is not a surprise.
Microsoft’s much-heralded Notepad.exe was storing files as plain text
Same level of security concern. Quit putting your sensitive data into apps that aren’t meant for it.
Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.
We mustn’t enter any private info in a large language model (llm) in the 1st place. The conversations are probably used to train ai models.
There should be 2 disclaimers in any llm –
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The llm’s responses aren’t always based on facts. It can say wrong info sometimes.
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Users mustn’t enter any private info in the llm.
So many apps use sqlite or json files for storage without encryption; this doesn’t seem like much of a discovery.
In any case, don’t share PII or any of your deepest, darkest secrets with it.
