Using only ChatGPT prompts, a Forcepoint researcher convinced the AI to create malware for finding and exfiltrating specific documents, despite its directive to refuse malicious requests.
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Using only ChatGPT prompts, a Forcepoint researcher convinced the AI to create malware for finding and exfiltrating specific documents, despite its directive to refuse malicious requests.
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