Eva Wolfangel

Large language models can be manipulated through language - and that means: Social engineering works with chatbots! This is good news, because it helps us to use large language models for our purposes (and possibly differently than they are intended). But at the same time this is bad news, because the bad actors can also do this. The talk uses examples from my recent research to explain how large language models can be manipulated. I show how I got them to reveal their dark secrets - like manipulative initial prompts - and thus exposed the companies behind them and their shady activities. Or how they helped me with investigative research, developed and explained the best Google Dorks, removed redactions and revealed things that they are not supposed to reveal. This is a lot of fun. But it also shows: LLMs will always leak our data, they can be manipulated and they will always say things they are not supposed to say.