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I wonder if you can just ask the model what it means.


No. They don't have the key and can't do encryption in the first place; they're still grand autocomplete engines under the hood. This could only work if the company deliberately builds a mechanism into the backend which runs the decryption function and injects the plaintext somewhere in the context. Which, sure, we can check if they did that, but the whole point is presumably hiding that info so why would they


Their models don't consume encrypted text, it would be absurd to train them to do so. Surely they decrypt the text before feeding it into the LLM, so the contents could get leaked out by asking it.




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