What actually gets sent to an AI provider when you ask?
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When you ask an AI model a question, the provider receives the whole request, not only the sentence you typed: hidden instructions, the earlier conversation, any attached files or retrieved passages, and descriptions of the tools the model may use. The model has no memory between requests, so every…
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- 2026-09-30 01:52 · DEV Community — AI
What actually gets sent to an AI provider when you ask?