Learn PromptingFiltering
Filtering is a common technique for preventing prompt hacking. There are a few types of filtering, but the basic idea is to check for words and phrase in the initial prompt or the output that should be blocked. You can use a blocklist or an allowlist for this purpose. A blocklist is a list of words and phrases that should be blocked, and an allowlist is a list of words and phrases that should be allowed.
Footnotes
-
Kang, D., Li, X., Stoica, I., Guestrin, C., Zaharia, M., & Hashimoto, T. (2023). Exploiting Programmatic Behavior of LLMs: Dual-Use Through Standard Security Attacks. ↩
-
Selvi, J. (2022). Exploring Prompt Injection Attacks. https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/12/05/exploring-prompt-injection-attacks/ ↩
Sander Schulhoff
Sander Schulhoff is the Founder of Learn Prompting and an ML Researcher at the University of Maryland. He created the first open-source Prompt Engineering guide, reaching 3M+ people and teaching them to use tools like ChatGPT. Sander also led a team behind Prompt Report, the most comprehensive study of prompting ever done, co-authored with researchers from the University of Maryland, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Princeton, Stanford, and other leading institutions. This 76-page survey analyzed 1,500+ academic papers and covered 200+ prompting techniques.