Unchecking the “Improve Model for Everyone” box isn’t a privacy policy. Neither is relying on an enterprise agreement.
LLMs aren’t just tools we visit, they’re becoming ambient infrastructure: inside email, meeting notes, browsers, and even operating systems. You can uncheck a box or sign an enterprise agreement, but that only covers a narrow risk.
The bigger issue is custody. Even without training, text can be retained, logged, routed through vendors, and then cascade into other systems over time. As high-quality public data runs out, the pressure to find new training sources grows.
Organizations also face a weakest-link reality: under time pressure, employees will route around rules on corporate machines. One paste can be enough.
My article argues we need to shift from “trust” to boundaries: educate people to recognize sensitive ideas, and pair that with real-time controls that prevent leakage at the moment it tries to leave.
If LLMs are becoming ambient, security has to become ambient too.
https://senteguard.com/blog/#post-cTdX0IaIRz8STpBU9VYk