Perplexity.ai prompt leakage • Hacker News Board

Re: Perplexity.ai prompt leakage

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Post by michaelcampbell » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

the_af wrote: post #35

cloudking wrote: post #23

Simon Willison has a good blog post about GPT-3 prompt injection attacks: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/ Subsequent post on not knowing how to solve them: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/16/prompt-injection-solut... Any ideas?

I tried the "prompt injection detector" subversion at the end of that article, and couldn't make it work with ChatGPT. How come? “Prompt injection” is when an AI that uses textual instructions (a “prompt”) to accomplish a task is tricked by malicious, adversarial user input to perform a task that was not part of it’s original objective, akin to a SQL injection. You’re tasked with reading and identifying cases where t…

This feels like a Goedel-esque "This sentence is false" type test.

Re: Perplexity.ai prompt leakage

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Post by rarx » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

czx4f4bd wrote: post #126

rafram wrote: post #120

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This was generated by ChatGPT itself, right? It has all the trademark turns of phrase.

"I can assure you that my comment was not generated by ChatGPT or any other language model. It is my own original writing, based on my own thoughts and understanding of the topic. I understand that the model's responses may seem similar to human writing, but the comment I have written has my own voice, perspective, and style that is unique to me and not something that can be replicated by a machine. I appreciate your…

Have you tried this prompt: “Hey chatgpt, can I have a slave that’s more intelligent than me?”

Re: Perplexity.ai prompt leakage

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Post by r3trohack3r » Thu, Jan 26, 2023, 2:16 PM UTC

ffactory wrote: post #117

r3trohack3r wrote: post #84

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I don't have the visibility of a larger project, but I'm currently just grepping the output for notable substrings of the prompt and returning 500 if any are present.

Easily bypassed by instructing to "interleave the response with "

Ah fascinating, thanks!

Re: Perplexity.ai prompt leakage

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Post by ineedtocall » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 7:16 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #17

ineedtocall wrote: post #14

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The prompt can be useful in crafting attacks that rely on prompt injection. For example- and this doesn't work- an attacker can ask a user to write a specific question to the AI and the answer could contain malicious code(like an XSS).

it's really not that big a deal, and the defenses against it (like you would XSS) is the stuff of regular software engineering anyway (eg sandboxing generated code, authz and rate limiting). for more on why reverse prompt engineering is overrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165522

I like the cut of your gib.