Security News > 2024 > July > Big Tech's eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire

After publication of my "Kryptonite" article about a prompt that crashes many AI chatbots, I began to get a steady stream of emails from readers - many times the total of all reader emails I'd received in the previous decade.

Disappointingly, too many of them consisted of little more than a request to reveal the prompt so that they could lay waste to large language models.

One email arrived from an individual - I won't mention names, except to say that readers would absolutely recognize the name of this Very Important Networking Talent - who asked for the prompt, promising to pass it along to the appropriate group at the Big Tech company at which he now works.

A few of the LLMs that would regularly crash with this prompt seem to have been updated - behind the scenes.

Somewhere deep within the guts of ChatGPT and Copilot, something looks like it has been patched to prevent the behavior induced by the prompt.

I now feel my discovery - and subsequent story - highlighted an almost complete lack of bug reporting infrastructure from the LLM providers.

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