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Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems can get hijacked by custom road signs (news.ucsc.edu)
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  • Researchers demonstrate that misleading text in the real-world environment can hijack the decision-making of embodied AI systems without hacking their software.
  • Self-driving cars, autonomous robots and drones, and other AI systems that use cameras may be vulnerable to these attacks.
  • The study presents the first academic exploration of environmental indirect prompt injection attacks against embodied AI systems.

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[-] psoul@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Bobby Tables grew up and bought a car?!

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