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Exploiting Programmatic Behavior of LLMs: Dual-Use Through Standard Security Attacks

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Kang, Daniel, Li, Xuechen, Stoica, Ion, Guestrin, Carlos, Zaharia, Matei, Hashimoto, Tatsunori·2024·2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)

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Recent advances in instruction-following large language models (LLMs) have led to dramatic improvements in a range of NLP tasks. Unfortunately, we find that the same improved capabilities amplify the dual-use risks for malicious purposes of these models. Dual-use is difficult to prevent as instruction-following capabilities now enable standard attacks from computer security. The capabilities of these instruction-following LLMs provide strong economic incentives for dual-use by malicious actors. In particular, we show that instruction-following LLMs can produce targeted malicious content, including hate speech and scams, bypassing in-the-wild defenses implemented by LLM API vendors. Our analysis shows that this content can be generated economically and at cost of $125-500 \times$ cheaper than human effort alone. Together, our findings suggest that LLMs will increasingly attract more sophisticated adversaries and attacks, and addressing these attacks may require new approaches to mitigations.

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Authors
Kang, D., Li, X., Stoica, I., Guestrin, C., Zaharia, M., & Hashimoto, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Berkeley
Venue
2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2024-05-23
Pages
132-143
OpenAlex
W4400315206
Cited by
114
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45
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 30
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29.51
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conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Open Philanthropy Project
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Keywords
large language models, dual-use risks, hate speech, scams, instruction following, security attacks

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