On-Device LLMs & Your Encrypted Data: The Profiling Risk Amplified

Companies can already mine your non-encrypted data on their servers. It’s your end-to-end encrypted data that was supposed to be untouchable. On-device ML first changed that, turning your own phone into the profiling engine that encryption was meant to prevent. On-device LLMs now take that to another level.

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Who Stole My Em Dash?

I loved the em dash for its messy elegance. Now it just makes my writing look like it was spat out by a language model.