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Abstract
Web-based Large Language Model (LLM) services have been widely adopted and
have become an integral part of our Internet experience. Third-party plugins
enhance the functionalities of LLM by enabling access to real-world data and
services. However, the privacy consequences associated with these services and
their third-party plugins are not well understood. Sensitive prompt data are
stored, processed, and shared by cloud-based LLM providers and third-party
plugins. In this paper, we propose Casper, a prompt sanitization technique that
aims to protect user privacy by detecting and removing sensitive information
from user inputs before sending them to LLM services. Casper runs entirely on
the user's device as a browser extension and does not require any changes to
the online LLM services. At the core of Casper is a three-layered sanitization
mechanism consisting of a rule-based filter, a Machine Learning (ML)-based
named entity recognizer, and a browser-based local LLM topic identifier. We
evaluate Casper on a dataset of 4000 synthesized prompts and show that it can
effectively filter out Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and
privacy-sensitive topics with high accuracy, at 98.5% and 89.9%, respectively.
External Datasets
4000 synthesized prompts
1000 synthesized prompts with named entities
1000 prompts without named entities
1000 synthesized prompts (500 with medical topics and 500 with legal topics)