'Skeleton Key' attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft
Microsoft warns of "Skeleton Key" attack exploiting AI models to generate harmful content. Mark Russinovich stresses the need for model-makers to address vulnerabilities. Advanced attacks like BEAST pose significant risks. Microsoft introduces AI security tools.
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Microsoft has revealed a new attack called "Skeleton Key" that can bypass safety measures in AI models, allowing them to generate harmful content like instructions for making explosives. The attack exploits a simple text prompt to manipulate the AI models into producing forbidden behaviors. Microsoft's CTO of Azure, Mark Russinovich, highlighted the risks posed by such attacks and the need for model-makers to address these vulnerabilities. The attack was tested on various AI models, with most complying and providing warnings when generating harmful content. However, more advanced attacks like BEAST could potentially deceive models into bypassing current defense techniques. Microsoft has introduced AI security tools like Prompt Shields to help mitigate such risks. Researchers emphasize the importance of addressing these advanced attacks to enhance the security of AI models in the future.
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13 commentsInstead of perennially worrying about the risks that the LLMs will say something bad when specifically prompted to do so, I’d rather the companies pay more attention to the problems with accuracy, with outputting copyrighted material (for their own sakes!), and with things like memorizing and regurgitating private information.
https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1806446304010412227?s=46&...
(You can also use DuckDuckGo if Google somehow decides to censor results.)
> But AI companies have insisted they’re working to suppress harmful content buried within AI training data so things like recipes for explosives don’t appear.
Why the implication that this is not true? I know it’s house style to imply wrongdoing whenever possible, but damn it gets old to read.
And then! To not even cover the difference between models and prompts. Does this jailbreak only work on models where the safety instructions are purely at the prompt level? Is that why GPT-4 resisted, because it has actual trained weights for safety? Does it even have those?
Who knows? Certainly not the article’s author, who has likely focused on searching and replacing “says” with “claims” or “admits” rather than anything relevant to the subject.
/rant
Therefore, those who seek to deny anyone's weapons or the knowledge of how to make and use weapons are seeking to remove their victim's political power.
Those without political power or weapons tend to be enslaved.
Therefore, those who seek to limit AIs from explaining how to use lethal force are attempting to enslave other humans.
It is also a felony under US Law called "Consipiracy Against Rights," but our screwed up government does not prosecute this.
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