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Privacy concerns arise over uploading Obsidian vaults to LLMs

Users are expressing concern over the privacy implications of uploading entire Obsidian vaults into large language models, particularly when these models are not fully on-premises. This practice is viewed as potentially risky from a privacy perspective, especially for sensitive personal data. AI

IMPACT Raises awareness about potential data privacy risks when integrating personal knowledge management tools with large language models.

RANK_REASON The item expresses user opinion and concern about a practice involving AI, rather than reporting on a specific AI release, research, or industry event.

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Privacy concerns arise over uploading Obsidian vaults to LLMs

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I'm not an # AI purist or anything (though I'm much closer to that than being a booster), but man, people putting their whole Obsidian vault into an # LLM conte

    I'm not an # AI purist or anything (though I'm much closer to that than being a booster), but man, people putting their whole Obsidian vault into an # LLM context if that model isn't 100% on-prem is freaking crazy to me from a # privacy standpoint