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shawnzyesterday at 8:09 PM1 replyview on HN

This interpretation basically waters down the meaning of end-to-end encryption to the point of uselessness. You may as well just say "encryption".


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Stefan-Hyesterday at 8:14 PM

E2EE is usually applied in contexts where the message's final recipient is NOT the server on the other end of a TLS connection, so yes, this scenario is a stretch. The point is that in the context of an AI chat app, you have to decide on the boundary that you draw around the server components that are processing the request and necessarily need access to decrypted data, and call that one "end" of the connection.