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Tuesday, August 04, 2026

It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn't, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft's navigation system.

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month.

The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology, which is being used in more and more applications, from government and military systems to online shopping and health care.

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"By taking advantage of this flaw, which concerns how LLMs identify who or what is giving them instructions, the researchers were able to make popular LLMs spit out information they had been trained not to provide, such as how to synthesize cocaine and how to sabotage a commercial aircraft's navigation system.

"There's a real probability that this is going to be a problem that's fundamentally unsolvable," says Charles Ye, an independent researcher and coauthor of the ICML paper."

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"The upshot, the researchers claim, is that all an attacker needs to do to hack an LLM is write text that spoofs a certain role. And because roles are a fundamental part of how LLMs work, no amount of training will fully solve the problem."

much more at the MIT Technology Review thread link

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-08-04 12:25 AM | Reply

I thought LLMs were advanced post-graduate law degrees.


#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-04 12:53 AM | Reply

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