Cornell University Discovers a Huge Threat at the Core of ChatGPT
Last Updated on November 14, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Ignacio de Gregorio
Originally published on Towards AI.
The eggs and omelet paradigm
Over the last six months, companies around the world have been deploying Generative AI (GenAI) solutions.
As most cases require the GenAI model to have “long-term memory” almost every enterprise solution requires a vector database the model can query at run time to retrieve the context required to answer the user inquiry.
But, according to researchers from Cornell University, the now once-thought as highly secure solution hides a troublesome truth that could cause huge privacy concerns.
Also, this discovery gives us tremendous insights into one of the most unknown components of frontier AI models today.
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