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Google Is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
9•u1hcw9nx•50m ago

Comments

FloatArtifact•45m ago
Encryption or not, if it's on somebody else's server, it isn't yours. I don't believe Google has my best interest.
u1hcw9nx•43m ago
With Fully Homomorphic Encryption it's nobody elses.

The basic idea of of the project is to remove the need for trust.

unsungNovelty•10m ago
It's google. They are good at engineering. Not at creating trust. After the bizillionth time they have broken trust, there is no need for benefit of the doubt.
thih9•1m ago
To what end?
krunck•6m ago
It's FHE for "cryptographically-secure private AI inference" not for every other service where they snoop into your behavioral information.
noident•4m ago
Does this rely on the Trust Me Bro model, or is there some way for the client to verify that the provider actually isn't able to see your inputs?

I want to read a whitepaper but all I can find is the tl;dw conference presentation

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