In Brief Posted: Anthony Ha OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks OpenAI announced a new feature tha…
In Brief Posted: Anthony Ha OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources. Among o…
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The company says that even with Lockdown Mode turned on, ChatGPT could still be vulnerable to prompt injections — which could, for example, “appear in cached web content or in an uploaded file, and could still affect the behavior or accuracy of a response.” But the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive dat…
What matters
- In Brief Posted: Anthony Ha OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks Open…
- Among other things, Lockdown Mode will disable live web browsing (so you can only access cached content), the retriev…
- The company says that even with Lockdown Mode turned on, ChatGPT could still be vulnerable to prompt injections — whi…
Why it matters
The company says that even with Lockdown Mode turned on, ChatGPT could still be vulnerable to prompt injections — whi…
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