Glossary
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This is a primary risk of unsanctioned AI. If a provider's terms allow them to use prompts for model improvement, any pasted data becomes part of the model's parametric knowledge. Unlike a file on a server, this data cannot be deleted through standard IT procedures once the training cycle is complete, leading to potential long-term intellectual property leaks.
Example
An engineer pastes proprietary source code into a public AI tool to debug it. The code is ingested and used to train the next version of the model, potentially allowing competitors to prompt the AI for similar logic in the future.