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by blfr 54 days ago
This is very cool because it allows you to use any model. Obviously, it still lets the model and its operator see the entire context of the conversation.

I quite like Moxie's Confer[1] approach to just encrypt the whole thing in such a way that no one except the end-user sees the plaintext.

[1] https://confer.to/

3 comments

Thanks for the comment! And yes, redaction based measures will always face the trade-off between privacy vs intellegence you get out of LLM. e.g. provider will inevitably know you're in some sorts of legal/tax issue even without any PII. And for some case the intellegence you want will depend on LLM knowing some detail (e.g. your AGI when doing tax preparation).

On the other hand Moxie's Confer is really interesting! On first glance I thought it's using homomorphic encryption but it turns out to be based on hardware isolation. TIL +1

That looks interesting. I would like to see them update the Privacy Policy and Terms to acknowledge that their service also works with an Apple ID or with another email. At present, it suggests that the only authentication allowed on your end is through Google's GMail.
It's a nice approach – if only Intel SGX were more trustworthy.