There are two key areas to understand when discussing AI and LLM security:
- Pre-training — when the model learns language, patterns, and relationships
- Inference — when the model responds to your prompts in real time
During pre-training, LLMs are trained on massive amounts of public data, generating billions of statistical “weights” that help the model understand relationships between words and concepts. These weights allow the AI to associate ideas — for example, connecting “Queen” with “King,” or “King” with “LeBron.” In simple terms, the model learns patterns and relationships across language.
When you interact with an LLM during inference, you are sending data to the model and receiving responses based on those learned relationships. This interaction is temporary — the model does not “learn” from your conversation in real time like a human would. Persistent learning only occurs if a provider stores interaction logs and later uses them to retrain the model.
That distinction matters. Denada’s enterprise agreements are designed to prevent customer data from being retained or used for future model training.