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Beware of promptware: How researchers broke into Google Home via Gemini
This was just a demonstration, but you can take steps to protect yourself from similar promptware attacks.
The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to maliciously control your home and life is one of the main reasons why many are reluctant to adopt the new technology -- it's downright scary. The project is named as a play on words from the famous AI paper, "Attention is all you need," and triggered actions like opening smart shutters, turning on a boiler, sending spam and offensive messages, leaking emails, starting Zoom calls, and downloading files. These include filtering outputs, requiring explicit user confirmation for sensitive actions, and AI-driven detection of suspect prompts.
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