It applies only to “virtually” all software, whatever “virtually” means. Clearly there are organizations and individuals not using LLMs or using them in a secured fashion (eg locally). The logic doesn’t apply to them. That said, the likelihood that some folks at Google are playing with LLMs whose inputs are visible to folks from Microsoft, and vice versa, to name two examples, seems high. To the extent that individuals at these two companies (or others like them) are using competito...
