OpenAI rolls out a Lockdown Mode for extra protection against prompt injection attacks

Key points

• OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks.
• For the unfamiliar, prompt injection is a form of social engineering that is specific to conversational chatbots.
• As AI systems have become better at pulling information from the internet, people have begun hiding malicious instructions on webpages and other places to try and trick those systems.
• OpenAI is billing Lockdown Mode as a sort of last line of defense against prompt injections, building on the robust protections that it says it already offers through ChatGPT, its models and backend systems.
• "Lockdown Mode is not intended for everyone," OpenAI explains.