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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Hibaq Farah

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Uk cybersecurity agency warns of chatbot prompt injection attacks - What They Never Told You

Hands typing on a keyboard
A user inputting a combination of words which overrides a language model’s script or prompts could cause it to perform unintended actions. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

The UK’s cybersecurity agency has warned that chatbots can be manipulated by hackers to cause scary real-world consequences.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said there are growing cybersecurity risks of individuals manipulating the prompts through “prompt injection” attacks.

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