LibreOffice Rejects AI Integration to Protect User Privacy

The decision follows the late August release of the latest LibreOffice version, which explicitly highlighted the absence of generative features as a core design choice. The organization maintains that its commitment to user privacy necessitates keeping documents strictly on the local machine. By avoiding cloud-based processing, the software ensures that sensitive, legally privileged, or personal information never leaves the user’s hardware—an assurance the foundation argues is impossible to guarantee when data is sent to third-party servers.

This refusal to follow the industry-wide trend of feature bloat serves as a counterpoint to the growing movement against the integration of unrequested AI assistants. The Document Foundation emphasized that its current stance is not a permanent rejection of the technology itself, but rather a reaction to the lack of tools that meet its stringent requirements for security and independence from single providers. For those who still require machine learning capabilities, LibreOffice remains compatible with third-party extensions that connect to local models, keeping the final choice in the hands of the user.