Concerns About Sharing Company Data with LLMs — How Are You Handling Security and Privacy?

Hey everyone,

I’m curious to get your thoughts and experiences around using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. — particularly when it comes to sharing company data or documents with these tools.

A few key questions I’m trying to figure out:

How do you handle the security and privacy risks of feeding internal or client-related information into an LLM?
Are there safe ways to share or reference company documents (e.g., through anonymization, on-prem setups, or private API configurations)?
Have any of you implemented policies or tools internally to control or audit what employees can share with these systems?

I’m not talking about intentionally uploading sensitive data — more the everyday use cases, like asking an LLM to help write reports, summarize files, or generate insights based on company docs.

Would love to hear what precautions or setups others are using to strike a balance between leveraging AI and protecting confidential information.

Thanks in advance for the input!

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