The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at a top AI conference earlier this month. The flaw concerns how LLMs identify who or what is giving them instructions.