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The alarmists yell shut it all down; The accelerationists yell the alarmists are fools; The pragmatists say wait a minute folks prompt injection is a real issue
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This looks like it might be the first proof of concept of multiple plugins - in this case WebPilot and Zapier - being combined together to exfiltrate private data via a prompt injection attack I wrote about this class of attack here: simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/14/wo
This actually gives me a little bit of hope that rather than just skipping right to doom, we’ll have some major global cyber incident that will force governments to clamp down on AI progress
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The alarmists aren't saying shut it all down They're saying take a breather, assess what is risky and what is safe. No one is saying shut down alpha fold Rushing ahead & building GPT-5 before humanity has had a chance to even understand the implications of GPT-4 is unnecessary
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The alarmists are saying ''this tech is powerful lets take a breather' The politicians are hearing 'this tech is powerful and we should have it first.' Actions have unintended consequences.
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It takes a while to discover the attack vectors. Surely there are many.
Having communal third places without advertising incentives where everyone can mix I think helps communities integrate. I'd consider myself in a fourth group that is continuing on and letting things play out as they do. Lots of time hiking in my future. That's how I intermix.
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