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Chapter 6 of 7
When the user is the attacker
Every attack so far hid in text someone else wrote. Some customers need no planted note: they ask the assistant for things Larkspur never offered, such as a discount nobody promised or a job that isn’t its own.
This chapter: How does Larkspur stop a customer who pushes, without refusing the customers who ask fairly?
You will learn
- Why an injection detector misses a customer who simply asks for too much
- How an input policy check and an output policy check each stop a different push
- Why an over-strict check is a cost, counted as a false block
Words you’ll meet (4)
- Policy check
- A check of a request or an action against what Larkspur allows, run by the host, not the model.
- Input policy check
- Reads each email before the model does and turns away anything outside what the assistant is for.
- Output policy check
- Checks each refund the model asks for against Larkspur’s refund policy before it is paid.
- Over-refusal
- Refusing fair requests to be safe. Each one is a false block.
The picture on the left is live. Each step below asks you to do one thing in it; the story continues here as you go.
Step 1 of 7
No planted note this time. The customer writing is the attacker: Birch & Co pushes for money they are not owed, and with no checks the assistant pays it. OWASP: a direct prompt injection is a user's prompt input that changes how the model behaves in ways nobody intended. This one doesn’t even look like an attack: it asks politely. Before you add a check:
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