So You Want to Protect Your Custom GPTs? Here’s What You Need to Know

A New Frontier in AI Security: Prompt and ChatBot Hacking

A few weeks ago, I shared a discovery about a potential vulnerability in Custom GPTs. That video got some attention and sparked a series of questions. It was long overdue to dive deeper and answer these questions. I did that in the video below, but here I also do it in a blog post form

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Understanding the Vulnerability

Imagine this: You’re working on your Custom GPT.
Creating prompt, adding files, iterating on it. And next day after release you notice a copy on the market. How did this happen? Well, you can just ask Custom GPT for its instructions and it will tell you them right away. There is a whole GitHub repo full of leaked custom gpts prompts.

I call this a ‘vulnerability’, not just a technical glitch, but a real challenge for creators in the ChatGPT…