Letter Z

A policy or service setting intended to prevent submitted data and outputs from being stored after processing.

It is like using a shredder immediately after a document has served its purpose. The exact promise varies by provider: temporary processing, security logs, legal requirements or connected tools may be treated differently, so the contract and technical details matter more than the label alone.

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Doing a task without being shown a worked example of that exact task in the prompt.

A broadly trained model may apply general patterns to a new request immediately. Zero-shot does not mean the model had no training; it means no task-specific example was supplied at that moment.

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