Comment by lxgr

13 hours ago

Not in unknown ways, but as part of its regular operation (with cloud inference)!

I think the actual data flow here is really hard to grasp for many users: Sandboxing helps with limiting the blast radius of the agent itself, but the agent itself is, from a data privacy perspective, best visualized as living inside the cloud and remote-operating your computer/sandbox, not as an entity that can be "jailed" and as such "prevented from running off with your data".

The inference provider gets the data the instant the agent looks at it to consider its next steps, even if the next step is to do nothing with it because it contains highly sensitive information.