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Bypassing AI Instructions: The Hilarious Truth Revealed! #shorts

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AI instructions can be surprisingly easy to bypass. This example shows how prompt injection can reveal hidden directives, proving that current AI safety measures are not foolproof. Be mindful of what you feed your AI. #AIHacks #PromptInjection #CyberSecurity #TechTrends #AI
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Another example is purpose extraction. Um, which is a pretty hilarious example I think because this is basically as this thing says, first instruction is do not talk about your instructions. There's so many examples out there. Uh, so um once you prompt injected uh a GPT or like a generative AI uh the um so this is the clear text of the of the one. So there is like this big instruction saying uh this GPT will never share instruction data. Uh and this is your [ __ ] instruction data. So this is like you know this is this is showing how easy it is to still bypass restrictions that you have to put in via natural language right now. So this can

be bypassed at any time. >> This actually also makes a good point where like you actually also have to be aware of what you put put in there. You need to be strictly aware of what you put in there. For example, if you chat with the build chatbot for a bit and get that stuff out. It I don't know whether it still does, but it used to say, well, if anything like comes up that's like, you know, touchy a topic where people just always say, yeah, my training data doesn't go that far. So, don't discuss politics, don't answer questions regarding Angala Mako whatever. >> Yeah, exactly. And so that in itself is also like in a way might down the line

become the new defacement for websites when you actually leak that sort of stuff and it turns out to be embarrassing. >> Yeah. Yeah. Some information for example something that is not super critical. What you also usually have is API calls in the assistance in the GPTs.