Why should businesses trust a MITM that can snoop on their LLM conversations? It’s one thing to share confidential data with a model provider if that’s the only way to get the benefit, but given all the hand wringing I see from executives and infosec folks about restricting who internal information can be shared with, I don’t see why they’d let additional parties have access to it as well.

It’s like we spent all this time enabling ubiquitous TLS to keep enable end-to-end encryption of all communications, but all of a sudden we’re now totally okay with having a 3P observe and record all of them so we can save a few bucks.

Stripe operates in a highly regulated environment and have earned the trust of the banks, merchants and payment networks. But LLMs are operating in a completely unregulated environment and I’m not sure the trust Stripe has earned for the former is transitive to the latter.