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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

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Re: What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

#2
Nice experiment, but I'd temper the optimism. "Zero breaches in 6k attempts" is a success-rate estimate, and the model is nondeterministic, so a failed jailbreak isn't proof it's blocked, just that it didn't fire on that sample. 6k different prompts isn't 6k tries of the worst one; an attack with even a 0.1% success rate usually shows zero in a handful of attempts, and the tail is what bites in production. Also, this is direct user injection, the easy case. The channel people actually lose to is indirect: untrusted content arriving via a tool result or fetched doc, which Fiu never had in the loop.

Re: What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

#6
Every time I've made an LLM do a thing it's designed not to do it's been a careful sideways crab-walk toward the goal over many exchanges. LLMs are vulnerable to 'frog boiling'. If each email is a new context it seems unsurprising that nobody broke it.

Re: What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

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Every time I've made an LLM do a thing it's designed not to do it's been a careful sideways crab-walk toward the goal over many exchanges. LLMs are vulnerable to 'frog boiling'. If each email is a new context it seems unsurprising that nobody broke it.

> it seems unsurprising that nobody broke it

But still a good thing overall. Two years ago this was not the case, and you could ask it to break its system prompt with a poem and get all the secrets back...

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