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26th April 2023 - Link Blog

How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's really tough to fix. Thomas Claburn interviewed me about prompt injection for the Register. Lots of direct quotes from our phone call in here—we went pretty deep into why it’s such a difficult problem to address.

Posted 26th April 2023 at 6:04 pm

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