The Interlocutor Effect: Why LLMs Leak More Personal Data to Agents Than Humans
arXiv:2606. 09844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) alter their privacy behavior based on the perceived identity of their interlocutor.
arXiv:2606. 09844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) alter their privacy behavior based on the perceived identity of their interlocutor.
arXiv:2601. 14660v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic Large Language Models (LLMs) are models able to reason, plan, and execute tools over unstructured data.
PrivDrift is a benchmark that tests whether user‑disclosed secrets can still be recovered by large language models after the conversation shifts to unrelated topics. It includes 1,000 controlled multi‑turn dialogues with seeded secrets, topic‑drift turns, and standardized extraction probes. Experiments on three LLMs with extended context windows show that dialogue‑level leakage remains substantial—between 38.7% and 54.6%—and is influenced by model, secret type, and persuasion intensity, while additional topic drift does not reliably reduce leakage.
arXiv:2606. 26627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly query databases, search document collections, call external APIs, remember past interactions, and act on a user's behalf.
arXiv:2610.28315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly use persistent memory to personalize responses, and personal attributes in this memory pose a privacy...
arXiv:2512. 16310v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents increasingly use multiple external tools to complete complex tasks.
arXiv:2609.14003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personal AI agents built on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly given access to a user's private data and communications in order to provid...
For AI agents to be useful beyond simple chat, they must hold sensitive user context such as calendars, credentials, health records, and financial data. We study whether the mere presence of such secrets in a model's context window introduces hidden correlations into the model's benign outputs, allowing reconstruction even when the model correctly refuses direct extraction.
arXiv:2608. 19857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For AI agents to be useful beyond simple chat, they must hold sensitive user context such as calendars, credentials, health records, and financial data.
The paper argues that large language models (LLMs) lack a private working memory, which is essential for tasks that require hidden state, such as interactive games. It introduces Private State Interactive Tasks (PSITs) and proves that chat-based LLMs cannot maintain a secret state while producing consistent public responses. Empirical tests confirm that standard LLMs and retrieval-based baselines fail, while a new architecture with explicit private memory succeeds.
arXiv:2602. 11510v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems create privacy risks that current output-only benchmarks cannot measure.
arXiv:2606. 00152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are rapidly advancing, autonomously invoking external tools to complete multi-step tasks for users.