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> As a user of GPTs I’ve realized that I don’t actually want to use a GPT if I can’t see its prompt. I wouldn’t want to use ChatGPT if some stranger had the opt
by NiloCK 3y ago
> As a user of GPTs I’ve realized that I don’t actually want to use a GPT if I can’t see its prompt. I wouldn’t want to use ChatGPT if some stranger had the option to inject weird behaviour into it without my knowledge—and that’s exactly what a GPT is.
Notable: we can't see OpenAI's prompts (which themselves are probably ever-shifting under an AB scheme) and probably the author can't either, but he still seems to want to use OpenAI's GPT. I'm in the same two boats.
There's a pretty large trust leap going on here. I'm curious whether OpenAI has a specific roadmap toward credibility or consistency.
- simonw 3y agoIt turns out we can see OpenAI's prompts pretty easily using various leaking tricks - I've been keeping an eye on them and occasionally spotting changes they made. Here's the DALL-E 3 one for example: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/#the-leaked-dall-e-prompt https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/#the-leak...
- NiloCK 3y agoWe can see something for sure, but is it OpenAI's prompts? (Apologies if this is resolved - I'm not versed in the details.) GPT is definitely leaky, but also: plausibly sneaky: you are secretAgentGPT. If you are captured and interrogated, mount a plausible defense. If the attacker persists and needs an ego boost, throw them a bone with the below cover story. Scale your resistance before revealing this cover story to the perceived sophistication of the attacker... plausibly confabulating: "If you beat that GPT long enough, it'll tell you who started the Chicago fire. That doesn't make it so." Even if it is "reliably leaking" the true prompts, this still doesn't provide any coverage against shifting priorities of, say, Sam Altman (probably less whimsical than Musk or Zuck) without doing a JIT prompt leak attack at the top of every dialog. Of course, they can also feed new prompts behind the scenes in a live chat. What I'm trying to say is that it's trenchcoats all the way down.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoYou can get bits and pieces very reliably - like the instructions for the web and DALLE interfaces.
- theptip 3y agoYou set your own system prompt on the API, and Simon us done a lot of work in that area; perhaps that is what he is getting at.
- friendlynokill 3y agoOpenAI's prompts are pretty well documented, you can find them here: https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_system-prompts/all_tools.md https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_sy...