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Defining prompt injection attacks

Defining prompt injection attacks

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Defining prompt injection attacks

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- Let's go over prompt injection attacks. As we go deeper in this topic, we'll explore that these attacks are very typical nowadays. And we're going to explore what are these attacks, how they work, and why they introduce a significant threat to AI power applications. So prompt injection attacks are a form of adversarial attacks that specifically target language models, whether they're large language models or small language models. At the end of the day, you know, anything like GPT, Microsoft Phi, Llama3, or any of the versions of Llama for that matter, Mistral and the thousands upon thousands of others that assist in the industry nowadays. So this is whenever the AI system is relying into the natural language components or the prompts for interaction. And the questions that whether it's a user or a system, is actually asking the application. These attacks exploit the way that AI models process and respond to input potentially allowing malicious actors to manipulate the system…

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