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Your prompt… plus everything you've ever (publicly) written

L2 · PractitionerTutorials & GuidesLessWrong AI· 10/14/2026

Helps practitioners understand how their digital footprint affects AI interactions and prompts more effectively.

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Frontier AI models increasingly incorporate users' public online writings into context, requiring awareness and proactive management.

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TL;DR: Increasingly when you interact with frontier models, your prompt doesn't only contain the words on the page, but also a lot of what you've ever publicly written online. This is not intended to be a scary post. And I'm not going to suggest that you self-censor (and honestly, by the time you're reading this, it's kinda too late anyhow). But it is something that’s underappreciated and would be good for more people to be aware of and even proactively address with their models. Latent space fi

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