{"id":178124,"date":"2023-12-12T00:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-customized-gpt-has-security-vulnerability"},"modified":"2023-12-12T00:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:59:41","slug":"study-customized-gpt-has-security-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-customized-gpt-has-security-vulnerability","title":{"rendered":"Study: Customized GPT has security vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-customized-gpt-has-security-vulnerability3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One month after OpenAI unveiled a program that allows users to easily create their own customized ChatGPT programs, a research team at Northwestern University is warning of a \u201csignificant security vulnerability\u201d that could lead to leaked data.<\/p>\n<p>In November, OpenAI announced ChatGPT subscribers could create custom GPTs as easily \u201cas starting a conversation, giving it instructions and extra knowledge, and picking what it can do, like searching the web, making images or analyzing data.\u201d They boasted of its simplicity and emphasized that no coding skills are required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis democratization of AI technology has fostered a community of builders, ranging from educators to enthusiasts, who contribute to the growing repository of specialized GPTs,\u201d said Jiahao Yu, a second-year doctoral student at Northwestern specializing in secure machine learning. But, he cautioned, \u201cthe high utility of these custom GPTs, the instruction-following nature of these models presents new challenges in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/security\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">security<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after OpenAI unveiled a program that allows users to easily create their own customized ChatGPT programs, a research team at Northwestern University is warning of a \u201csignificant security vulnerability\u201d that could lead to leaked data. In November, OpenAI announced ChatGPT subscribers could create custom GPTs as easily \u201cas starting a conversation, giving it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178124","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}