Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
Reported by Simon Willison: Prompt Injection as Role Confusion. Analysis and context written by TickrWire.
Researchers present a paper explaining prompt injection attacks as 'role confusion' in AI models, accompanied by an accessible blog-style writeup for broader understanding.
<p><strong><a href="https://role-confusion.github.io">Prompt Injection as Role Confusion</a></strong></p>
First, I absolutely love this:</p>
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<p>This is a blog-style writeup of the paper.</p>
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<p>I wish <em>every paper</em> would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impact of a paper can be so much higher if you publish a readable version to accompany the formal one.</p>
<p>Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell present some fascinating research into the challenge of having models distinguish their own privileged text (here wra
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