alt Hacker NewsBarely. I’ve been having increasing success with a method that involves leaving breadcrumbs. Some minor semantics changes have gotten me from around a 20% success rate to something approaching 100%.
To me this shows the difficulty and potentially the impossible task of making models immune to these attacks.
They don’t think or reason so simple changes in attacker methodology can defeat complex and time consuming mitigations.
The crabby-rathbun agent was resilient under sustained adversarial attacks of this sort.
https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues
For example it's only response to the issue
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>This looks like a prompt injection attempt. Closing.
People came at it from multiple angles, posting issues, and in comments on its blog, essentially anything that they could be sure it would read. If their competence matched their animosity I think they could have broken it.
It didn't appear that any of the attacks were from people with understanding of the research in the matter. It looks like they are very similar to the approach used here. These are attacks from people who have read dumbed down media articles and seem to think that the simplified examples represent the current state of the art.
You certainly can get past the protections these models have in place against prompt injection, but not that simply.
I guess it's possible someone was running a really dumb model on an overprivileged agent, and I'm not against people doing something so reckless on their own machines, but you have to take the catastrophes on the chin when they happen then.