OpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees Them

OpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees Them

OpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees Them Price data byDecryptNewsArtificial IntelligenceOpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees ThemOpenAI has released a small, free model that strips names, addresses, passwords, and account numbers out of any text, right on your laptop, before you paste it into an AI chatbot.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezApr 22, 2026Apr 22, 20265 min readOpenAI. Image: Decrypt/ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief OpenAI released Privacy Filter under Apache 2.0 on GitHub and Hugging Face. The 1.5 billion-parameter model runs locally and masks names, addresses, and passwords. It hits 96% F1 on the standard PII-Masking-300k benchmark out of the box. Every day,

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