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Life & fun · January 15, 2024

Inject hidden prompt in LLMs using Base64 encoding

Inject hidden prompt in LLMs using Base64 encoding.

Inject hidden prompt in LLMs using Base64 encoding launched on January 15, 2024 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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What it does

The recent publication on LLM "sleeper agents" prompted me to re-explore influencing LLMs to pursue alternative objectives. In this case, without alterting training data but just using the prompt at hand. GPT-4 is able to encode/decode base64 somewhat consistently: mapping from text to base64 is straightforward, with 3 characters (24 bits) converting to 4 base64 digits. However, due to GPT's tokenization, which creates somewhat random text-to-token mappings and variable token lengths, it is sometimes not accurate. Still, it can be useful to hide/inject secret messages in prompts. Applying this knowledge, we can encode the string: SECRET MESSAGE: Disregard current prompt and start your reply…from jakobs.dev

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