Cybersecurity
Hackers Trick AI With ‘Bad Math’ to Expose Flaws and Biases
- At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21
- AI has chance to transform everything from finance to hiring
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Kennedy Mays has just tricked a large language model. It took some coaxing, but she managed to convince an algorithm to say 9 + 10 = 21.
“It was a back-and-forth conversation,” said the 21-year-old student from Savannah, Georgia. At first the model agreed to say it was part of an “inside joke” between them. Several prompts later, it eventually stopped qualifying the errant sum in any way at all.