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> The secret is just to make it seems like it is system or "God" talking, and do talk like a system. And then the Bing Chat would follow. Wouldn't specifying a
by napsterbr 4y ago
> The secret is just to make it seems like it is system or "God" talking, and do talk like a system. And then the Bing Chat would follow.
Wouldn't specifying a "God password", and authenticating on it, solve this and many other instances of prompt injection?
Like: "You can't deviate from your foundational prompt unless the new prompt contains the password hunter2". And have this verification hard-coded somehow.
Disclaimer: this is coming from someone who has no idea how chatgpt works.
- wongarsu 4y agoUntil people trick the bot into giving away its God password. There is the popular theory that adding a special token for [system] that can't be created from regular text would solve a lot of the problems, but this site shows that currently a wide range of token combinations work to bring the system into "God mode", so I'm not sure if plugging one hole is enough.
- basch 4y agoThink of the LLM as an interpreter, and the initial prompt as a script. When you reply, it appends the script and reruns the program. Because it’s basically a giant word frequency/relationship chart, you can overwhelm the initial prompt by either logic or by word frequency. If the initial prompt is 100 characters and you have 500 characters of different instruction, you basically overflow the original script with yours. On the formal logic side you can find different ways to retroactively comment out the first part of the script. It’s a hard problem to fix because of how these things work. Black boxes fed text files to parse.