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Data doesn't expire.

A password takes a minute to change. The rest of your identity is far harder to replace.

Now

The model can be talked into it.

  • AI cannot reliably tell your data from an attacker's instructions.
  • Security researchers rank prompt injection the #1 risk for AI applications.
  • An AI system with access to your file can be tricked by hidden instructions into revealing it.
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, 2025
Later

Copied now, opened later?

  • Encrypted data is being collected today on the bet that future computers can unlock it.
  • Security agencies call it “harvest now, decrypt later.”
  • The U.S. has published quantum-resistant standards, with a proposed timeline to retire today's by 2035.
NIST IR 8547 (draft), 2024

The only file that can't leak from someone else's AI is the file that never went in.