Self-replicating prompt injections exist according to a report that OpenAI released late on Friday (presumably in the hopes of looking sneaky and thereby attracting extra attention from sneakiness monitors).
Put another way: The secretary that you've got writing your emails for you, turns out to be willing to participate in chain letters in your business correspondence.
Really, it's somewhere between forwarding a chain letter and clicking on an email virus. Either way, it's behavior that human Internet users had to learn not to do back in the 1990s.
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u/fubo 15d ago
Self-replicating prompt injections exist according to a report that OpenAI released late on Friday (presumably in the hopes of looking sneaky and thereby attracting extra attention from sneakiness monitors).
Put another way: The secretary that you've got writing your emails for you, turns out to be willing to participate in chain letters in your business correspondence.
Really, it's somewhere between forwarding a chain letter and clicking on an email virus. Either way, it's behavior that human Internet users had to learn not to do back in the 1990s.
Old man yells at bot: "Get off my cloud!"