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18th August 2023 - Link Blog

Compromising LLMs: The Advent of AI Malware. The big Black Hat 2023 Prompt Injection talk, by Kai Greshake and team. The linked Whitepaper, Not what you’ve signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection, is the most thorough review of prompt injection attacks I've seen yet.

Posted 18th August 2023 at 2:46 am

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