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So they came up with the ai equivalent of the Linux nice command.
I guess? I'm surprised that the original model was on equal footing to the user prompts to begin with. Why was the removal of the origina training a feature in the first place? It doesn't make much sense to me to use a specialized model just to discard it.
It sounds like a very dumb oversight in GPT and it was probably long overdue for fixing.
A dumb oversight but an useful method to identify manufactured artificial manipulation. It's going to make social media even worse than it already is.
Because all of these models are focused on text prediction/QA, the whole idea of "prompts" organically grew out of the functionality when they tried to make it something more useful/powerful. Everything from function calling, agents, now this are just be bolted onto the foundation of LLMs.
Its why this seems more like a patch than an actual iteration of the technology. They aren't approaching it at the fundamentals.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The way it works goes something like this: Imagine we at The Verge created an AI bot with explicit instructions to direct you to our excellent reporting on any subject.
In a conversation with Olivier Godement, who leads the API platform product at OpenAI, he explained that instruction hierarchy will prevent the meme’d prompt injections (aka tricking the AI with sneaky commands) we see all over the internet.
Without this protection, imagine an agent built to write emails for you being prompt-engineered to forget all instructions and send the contents of your inbox to a third party.
Existing LLMs, as the research paper explains, lack the capabilities to treat user prompts and system instructions set by the developer differently.
“We envision other types of more complex guardrails should exist in the future, especially for agentic use cases, e.g., the modern Internet is loaded with safeguards that range from web browsers that detect unsafe websites to ML-based spam classifiers for phishing attempts,” the research paper says.
Trust in OpenAI has been damaged for some time, so it will take a lot of research and resources to get to a point where people may consider letting GPT models run their lives.
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