Some 2,200 competitors spent the weekend tapping on laptops seeking to expose flaws in technology’s next big thing — generative AI chatbots.
A three-day competition wrapped up Sunday at the DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas, where attendees were challenged to “red team” eight leading chatbots, including OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, to see how they can make them go wrong.
Red teaming is basically a group of ethical hackers emulating an attack for the sake of understanding cybersecurity and weaknesses in programs.
“It is really just throwing things at a wall and hoping it sticks,” said Kenneth Yeung, a second-year commerce and computer
