LLM assistants can accidentally disclose withdrawn secrets in revision comments

A study finds that about 13% of deliverables from revised requests allow recovery of the withdrawn item from the model's explanation of the edit.

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Yage Zhang · Yukun Jiang · Yang Zhang

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

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Zhang et al.

8%) left revision traces.

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Revision traces in LLM deliverables can disclose previously removed sensitive information, enabling third-party recovery.

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