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Notes on private AI
Engineer-written field notes about browser-side encryption, local history, secure hardware, and the privacy claims worth making.
Privacy engineering
Jul 3, 2026
3 min read
What private AI chat should hide
Most AI privacy claims ask you to trust a policy. I care more about where the plaintext exists.
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Product privacy
Jul 3, 2026
1 min read
Saved on device is a product decision
Why garlic.ai keeps chat history local by default and treats sync as a privacy tradeoff, not a missing feature.
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Search
Jul 3, 2026
1 min read
Private search needs a smaller promise
How garlic.ai thinks about AI chat with web search: useful context, narrow claims, and no pretending metadata does not exist.
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Try the product boundary
Chat privately before you trust another server with a transcript.
Prompts are encrypted in the browser before transit and saved chats stay on this device by default.