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OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Without this protection, imagine an agent built to write emails for you being prompt-engineered to forget all instructions and send the contents of your inbox to a third party. Not great!

Does genAI really have this power? I thought they just smash words together that sound like they make sense

[–] kp729 4 points 5 months ago

They can put some code to check the phrase before it goes to the LLM to filter out these queries.

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