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“ChinAI #253: Tencent Research Institute releases Large Model Security & Ethics Report” by Jeffrey Ding

Feb 5, 2024

The podcast explores Tencent Research Institute's research report on large language models, emphasizing value alignment for innovation. Topics include security challenges, best practices, and the importance of responsible AI. It also delves into Tencent's security measures, learning from Western labs, and challenges faced by students studying abroad in China during the pandemic.

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Tencent's Large Model Security Report emphasizes prompt injection attacks and importance of value alignment in LLM development.

Tencent's prompt security evaluation platform ensures compliance with regulations and showcases global AI ethics practices.

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Types of Security Risks for Large Language Models

The podcast delves into the various security risks faced by large language models, particularly focusing on prompt injection attacks and adversarial examples. Prompt injection attacks aim to manipulate prompts to bypass the model's security mechanisms, while adversarial examples introduce noise to prompts to generate incorrect or unsafe outputs. The report emphasizes the importance of addressing these risks, highlighting how adversarial examples differ from direct model manipulation and showcasing Tencent's prompt security evaluation platform for ensuring compliance with regulations.

Introduction

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Exploring Tencent's Security Measures and Learning from Western Labs in Large Model Research

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Challenges of Studying Abroad in China, Shift in Policy Paradigms, Chip Shipment Incident, and AI Seminar Highlights

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Feature Translation: Large Model Safety and Ethics Research Report 2024

Context: At a special forum on January 24, Tencent released a 76-pg. research report on large model security and ethics. In a summary of the report (link to original Chinese), Tencent Research Institute (TRI) directly links value alignment/responsible AI to accelerated innovation in large language models (LLMs). The report consists of five chapters: 1) LLM development trends, 2) opportunities and challenges in LLM security, 3) LLM security frameworks, 4) best practices for large model security, and 5) large model value alignment progress and trends. In the next few [...]

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First published:
February 5th, 2024

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-253-tencent-research-institute

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