captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoHacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuityarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1379arrow-down16
arrow-up1373arrow-down1external-linkHacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuityarstechnica.comcaptainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up110·edit-23 months agotldr it affects the desktop app of chatgpt, but likely any client that features long term memory functionality. does not apply to the web interface. does not apply to API access. the data exfiltration is visible to the user as GPT streams the tokens that form the exfiltration URL as a (fake) markdown image.
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