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If you want to build the AR glasses product everyone thinks is the next big thing, you are going to have to invade people's privacy.
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The hard problem with team and company versions of our AI wiki is privacy: taking the union of every user's files risks the AI leaking private information like salaries, creating 'big egg on face'.
Greze notes that while customers want a multi-user company wiki, you can't simply union everyone's private files — if the AI misjudges and puts salaries in a shared spreadsheet, that's 'big egg on face,' so the privacy question is the real challenge. ✦ AI generated
Jean-Denis Greze · Platformer · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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“If you could figure that out, you'd have solved a big need I'm having in this new company.”
But the immediate problem is that you can't take the union of every user's files, because there's private information. ... And if you tell the LLM, 'When you're creating the team library, make sure not to put any HR information in there' — well, what if the LLM evaluates that wrong and puts people's salaries in a spreadsheet by mistake? Then you've got big egg on face. You have to be thoughtful when you build the team and company versions of these things, and that's the real challenge.
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