AI-aided editing: one-click edits of highlighted sensitive spans significantly boost privacy

tianshi_li · x · 2026-10-01

Users aren't privacy experts—they don't know the risks of sharing different data types, and manual review is effortful. The author's paper proposes AI-aided editing: automatically highlight spans containing sensitive content and offer a one-click edit button, which significantly increases privacy protection for real-world AI usage.

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