Cryptanalyzing LLMs with Nicholas Carlini

Security. Cryptography. Whatever. by Deirdre Connolly, Thomas Ptacek, David Adrian

Jan 28, 202580:42Technology

'Let us model our large language model as a hash function—' Sold. Our special guest Nicholas Carlini joins us to discuss differential cryptanalysis on LLMs and other attacks, just as the ones that made OpenAI t...

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