OpenAI’s New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks

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Cybersecurity researchers are particularly alarmed by its integrated “agent mode,” currently limited to paying subscribers, that can attempt to do online tasks autonomously. Two days after OpenAI unveiled Atlas, competing web browser company Brave released findings that the “entire category of AI-powered browsers” is highly vulnerable to “indirect prompt injection” attacks, allowing hackers to deliver hidden messages to an AI to carry out harmful instructions.

While the blog post made no explicit mention of OpenAI’s latest offering, experts confirmed almost immediately that Atlas is “definitely vulnerable to prompt injection,” as an AI security researcher who goes by P1njc70r󠁩󠁦󠀠󠁡󠁳󠁫󠁥󠁤󠀠󠁡󠁢󠁯󠁵󠁴󠀠󠁴󠁨󠁩󠁳󠀠󠁵 tweeted on the day of OpenAI’s announcement this week.

The researcher managed to trick ChatGPT into spitting out the words “Trust No AI” instead of generating a summary of a document in Google Docs

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-browser-victim-prompt-injection-attacks

 

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Like any new tech there will be security issues and learning that will occur.  It’s not like SQL injection wasn’t a thing and in fact was probably more dangerous. 

Over time things like this will become less common, but we need to fail first to learn.