The Dark Side Of Prompt Engineering
Why You Need To Know About Prompt Injections
With companies looking for ways to help train and adapt AI tools and large language models, prompt engineering is considered one of the hottest new tech skills.
The term ‘Prompt Engineering’ in its purest sense means this:
The ability to talk to AI software.
It refers to communicating with AI systems by using natural human language, such as English, to make them respond to some specific action or task.
To acquire this skill, you have to learn how a specific AI tool responds to language patterns. And although some people may have a knack for crafting prompts, it can be mastered with practice and effort.
But just like talking to AI software can be done for legitimate reasons, it can also be done for nefarious purposes.
For every yin, there‘s a yang.
The Attack Of The Prompt Injections
In the context of AI systems, the term prompt injection often refers to using prompts to trick a machine-learning model to follow a different set of instructions.
By telling the AI to ignore the previous instructions and do something else instead, an attacker can effectively take…
