Safeguarding Generative AI: Protecting Against Token Injection Attacks

This article highlights the crucial need for robust security in the rapidly evolving world of Generative AI. It emphasizes innovative methods to prevent attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in how Large Language Models (LLMs) interpret custom tokens, paving the way for more secure and reliable AI applications.

• •LLMs use special tokens to structure conversations, and these can be exploited.
• •Token injection attacks can lead to serious security breaches, like arbitrary function calls.
• •A tokenizer-level fix can prevent these attacks by breaking special tokens into regular ones.