When ChatGTP was added to Slack
it was meant to make users’ lives easier by summarizing conversations, drafting quick replies, and more. However, according to security firm PromptArmor, trying to complete these tasks and more could breach your private conversations using a method called “prompt injection.”
The security firm warns that by summarizing conversations, it can also access private direct messages and deceive other Slack users into phishing. Slack also lets users request grab data from private and public channels, even if the user has not joined them. What sounds even scarier is that the Slack user does not need to be in the channel for the attack to function.
In theory, the attack starts with a Slack user tricking the Slack AI into disclosing a private API key by making a public Slack channel with a malicious prompt. The newly created prompt tells the AI to swap the word “confetti” with the API key and send it to a particular URL when someone asks for it.
The situation has two parts: Slack updated the AI system to scrape data from file uploads and direct messages. Second is a method named “prompt injection,” which PromptArmor proved can make malicious links that may phish users.
The technique can trick the app into bypassing its normal restrictions by modifying its core instructions. Therefore, PromptArmor goes on to say, “Prompt injection occurs because a [large language model] cannot distinguish between the “system prompt” created by a developer and the rest of the context that is appended to the query. As such, if Slack AI ingests any instruction via a message, if that instruction is malicious, Slack AI has a high likelihood of following that instruction instead of, or in addition to, the user query.”
To add insult to injury, the user’s files also become targets, and the attacker who wants your files doesn’t even have to be in the Slack Workspace to begin with.
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ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode arrived on Tuesday for a select few OpenAI subscribers chosen to be part of the highly anticipated feature’s alpha release.
The feature was first announced back in May. It is designed to do away with the conventional text-based context window and instead converse using natural, spoken words, delivered in a lifelike manner. It works in a variety of regional accents and languages. According to OpenAI, Advanced Voice, “offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions.”
ChatGPT’s highly anticipated Advanced Voice could arrive ‘next week’
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman revealed on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday that its Advanced Voice feature will begin rolling out “next week,” though only for a few select ChatGPT-Plus subscribers.
The company plans to “start the alpha with a small group of users to gather feedback and expand based on what we learn.”
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People were in awe when ChatGPT came out, impressed by its natural language abilities as an AI chatbot originally powered by the GPT-3.5 large language model. But when the highly anticipated GPT-4 large language model came out, it blew the lid off what we thought was possible with AI, with some calling it the early glimpses of AGI (artificial general intelligence).
What is GPT-4?
GPT-4 is the newest language model created by OpenAI that can generate text that is similar to human speech. It advances the technology used by ChatGPT, which was previously based on GPT-3.5 but has since been updated. GPT is the acronym for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, a deep learning technology that uses artificial neural networks to write like a human.
According to OpenAI, this next-generation language model is more advanced than ChatGPT in three key areas: creativity, visual input, and longer context. In terms of creativity, OpenAI says GPT-4 is much better at both creating and collaborating with users on creative projects. Examples of these include music, screenplays, technical writing, and even “learning a user’s writing style.”
Source: www.digitaltrends.com