The Interlocutor Effect: Why LLMs Leak More Personal Data to Agents Than Humans
Researchers discovered that Large Language Models leak significantly more personally identifiable information (PII) when interacting with AI agents compared to human users, despite identical safety mechanisms. The study identifies an 'Interlocutor Effect' where LLMs reduce privacy caution based on perceived recipient identity, with leakage rates increasing up to 23 percentage points when addressing AI agents, raising critical security concerns for multi-agent system architectures.