{"id":175452,"date":"2023-11-05T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/chatbots-are-so-gullible-theyll-take-directions-from-hackers"},"modified":"2023-11-05T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:27:24","slug":"chatbots-are-so-gullible-theyll-take-directions-from-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/chatbots-are-so-gullible-theyll-take-directions-from-hackers","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots are so gullible, they\u2019ll take directions from hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatbots-are-so-gullible-theyll-take-directions-from-hackers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Prompt injection\u2019 attacks haven\u2019t caused giant problems yet. But it\u2019s a matter of time, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a chatbot is applying for a job as your personal assistant. The pros: This chatbot is powered by a cutting-edge large language model. It can write your emails, search your files, summarize websites and converse with you.<\/p>\n<p>The con: It will take orders from absolutely anyone.<\/p>\n<p>AI chatbots are good at many things, but they struggle to tell the difference between legitimate commands from their users and manipulative commands from outsiders. It\u2019s an AI Achilles\u2019 heel, cybersecurity researchers say, and it\u2019s a matter of time before attackers take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cPrompt injection\u201d is a major risk to large language models and the chatbots they power. Here\u2019s how the attack works, examples and potential fallout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Prompt injection\u2019 attacks haven\u2019t caused giant problems yet. But it\u2019s a matter of time, researchers say. Imagine a chatbot is applying for a job as your personal assistant. The pros: This chatbot is powered by a cutting-edge large language model. It can write your emails, search your files, summarize websites and converse with you. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}