I’ve created a tool that helps you reclaim your privacy in the age of AI

But first, a little background: why did I create this tool?

It’s simple: I work at a company where I manage the entire backend, data management, task optimization, automation, and so on.

When ChatGPT came out in 2023, things went haywire, everyone was copying and pasting highly confidential info into it just to save 30 seconds on writing an email.

As if all of Snowden’s warnings only applied to Google searches.

So we had to rein all that in a bit, define how and when we use LLMs. But as you can imagine, to save time (or out of laziness, I don’t know), all that information kept getting sent in bulk.

From customers’ first and last names to financial data, even passwords. Everything went in there.

It’s been a year now since I left that company to focus on my own projects. And this issue came back to me: how can we save time without compromising our privacy and personal data?

After weeks of testing and research, and two months of development, ONYRI Sanitize was born.

ONYRI Sanitize is a simple web app connected to the latest AI model available, which uses scripts (without AI) to detect data that needs to be kept confidential.

You continue to use AI just as you would on the official site, but this time, your data will remain confidential forever.

When you consider that millions of users admit to having already used ChatGPT as a therapist, it would be naive to think that these companies aren’t using that data...

A quote I grew up with:

“Saying you don’t need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t need free speech because you have nothing to say.” — Edward Snowden