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PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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Re: PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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I’m not sure whether this project is truly practical in its current form. More and more people are using AI agents through CLI tools or desktop applications, so I think you should consider extending it to run locally.

The core is plain JS so it is easy to make a plugin, but I believe there are many plugins already for common coding agents.

I wanted to target the less savvy and non-coder people who treat chatgpt and friends like the new google.

Re: PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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post #5

I don't understand this, what's the point? How does anyone accidentally give personal information to an LLM? Because either you don't in the first place (eh, I guess, most people?) or you do but for some specific, weird reason (I can't think of any but I guess these exist).

As @frumiousirc said, it is mainly for the copy-paste case (e.g. you want llm to quickly check out contract terms for you without leaking the parties' identities.)

I have to say I find it amusing how a lot expect people to "not be lazy", people are mostly lazy and even sometimes clueless about how much they leak to BigCorps.

Re: PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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post #5

I don't understand this, what's the point? How does anyone accidentally give personal information to an LLM? Because either you don't in the first place (eh, I guess, most people?) or you do but for some specific, weird reason (I can't think of any but I guess these exist).

I've found plenty of scenarios where I'm providing logs and it contains a real name, personal info, etc. Stuff like file names, file paths, and little nuggets of information that can lead to an LLM or malicious actor profiling you.

Re: PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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Some people are confused as to what this is, so I thought I'd bring up this sentence from the Readme:

> PISIGuard runs entirely in your browser. It spots names, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, API keys, and more, replaces them with safe placeholders, then puts the real values back into the AI’s reply. From your point of view, it’s mostly invisible; from the AI’s point of view, the sensitive stuff was never there.

I suggest putting it at the top of the readme!

I think it's a very smart system, and could easily extend beyond AI use. Please continue working on it!

Re: PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

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post #15

Some people are confused as to what this is, so I thought I'd bring up this sentence from the Readme: > PISIGuard runs entirely in your browser. It spots names, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, API keys, and more, replaces them with safe placeholders, then puts the real values back into the AI’s reply. From your point of view, it’s mostly invisible; from the AI’s point of view, the sens…

Really appreciate your comment!

I put this paragraph in Github project description. Hopefully it's less confusing now.

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