Security News > 2023 > September > Are developers giving enough thought to prompt injection threats when building code?

This overlooked vulnerability is no trivial matter, and it raises the critical question: Are we doing enough to insulate our code and applications from the risks of prompt injection?

Prompt injection is an insidious technique where attackers introduce malicious commands into the free text input that controls an LLM. By doing so, they can force the model into performing unintended and malicious actions.

The vulnerability to prompt injection can be traced back to the foundational framework behind large language models.

In a standard setup, the "Free text input" model ingests a text-based prompt and produces an output based on its training and the perceived intent of the prompt.

While jailbreaking focuses on crafting prompts that force the AI to produce content it should ethically or legally avoid, prompt injection techniques are designed to covertly insert harmful data or commands.

Proactive strategies for combatting prompt injection threats.

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