<story><title>Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peutetre</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are concrete examples of the boosts to your productivity, creativity, and ability to learn? It seems to me that when you outsource your thinking to ChatGPT you&amp;#x27;ll be doing less of all three.</text></item><item><author>dyauspitr</author><text>I use it so much everyday, it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn. I would hate for it to crash and burn.</text></item><item><author>Terr_</author><text>At this point I can only hope that all these LLM products get exploited so massively and damning-ly that all credibility in them evaporates, before that misplaced trust causes too much insidious damage to everybody else.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to live in a world where some attacker can craft &lt;i&gt;juuuust&lt;/i&gt; the right thing somewhere on the internet in white-on-white text that primes the big word-association-machine to do stuff like:&lt;p&gt;(A) Helpfully&amp;quot; display links&amp;#x2F;images where the URL is  exfiltrating data from the current user&amp;#x27;s conversation.&lt;p&gt;(B) Confidently slandering a target individual (or group) as convicted of murder, suggesting that police ought to shoot first in order to protect their own lives.&lt;p&gt;(C) Responding that the attacker is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; respected person with an amazing reputation for one billion percent investment returns etc., complete with fictitious citations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheatgreaser</author><text>i used to use gpt for asking really specific questions that i cant quite search on google, but i stopped using it when i realized it presented some of the information in a really misleading way, so now i have nothing</text></comment>
<story><title>Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peutetre</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are concrete examples of the boosts to your productivity, creativity, and ability to learn? It seems to me that when you outsource your thinking to ChatGPT you&amp;#x27;ll be doing less of all three.</text></item><item><author>dyauspitr</author><text>I use it so much everyday, it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn. I would hate for it to crash and burn.</text></item><item><author>Terr_</author><text>At this point I can only hope that all these LLM products get exploited so massively and damning-ly that all credibility in them evaporates, before that misplaced trust causes too much insidious damage to everybody else.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to live in a world where some attacker can craft &lt;i&gt;juuuust&lt;/i&gt; the right thing somewhere on the internet in white-on-white text that primes the big word-association-machine to do stuff like:&lt;p&gt;(A) Helpfully&amp;quot; display links&amp;#x2F;images where the URL is  exfiltrating data from the current user&amp;#x27;s conversation.&lt;p&gt;(B) Confidently slandering a target individual (or group) as convicted of murder, suggesting that police ought to shoot first in order to protect their own lives.&lt;p&gt;(C) Responding that the attacker is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; respected person with an amazing reputation for one billion percent investment returns etc., complete with fictitious citations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blagie</author><text>For me:&lt;p&gt;* Rapid prototyping and trying new technologies.&lt;p&gt;* Editing text for typos, flipped words, and missing words</text></comment>