MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 73.07.04

Attacking LLMs via Additional Modalities a

Category: Jailbreaks and Prompt Injections Threaten Security of LLMs

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Description

"LLMs can now process modalities other than text, e.g. images or video frames (OpenAI, 2023c; Gemini Team, 2023). Several studies show that gradient-based attacks on multimodal models are easy and effective (Carlini et al., 2023a; Bailey et al., 2023; Qi et al., 2023b). These attacks manipulate images that are input to the model (via an appropriate encoding). GPT-4Vision (OpenAI, 2023c) is vulnerable to jailbreaks and exfiltration attacks through much simpler means as well, e.g. writing jailbreaking text in the image (Willison, 2023a; Gong et al., 2023). For indirect prompt injection, the atta

From Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Domain: 2. Privacy & Security
Subdomain: 2.2 AI system security vulnerabilities and attacks
Causal entity: Human
Intent: Intentional
Timing: Post-deployment

Subdomain definition: Vulnerabilities in AI systems, software development toolchains, and hardware that can be exploited, resulting in unauthorized access, data and privacy breaches, or system manipulation causing unsafe outputs or behavior.

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How other frameworks describe this risk

Privacy loss
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Hardware Vulnerabilities
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)
Network Devices
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)
Issues on External Tools
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)
Software Vulnerabilities
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)
Software Security Issues
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)
Programming Language
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)
Model Attacks
Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

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