Un estudio alerta del riesgo de manipulación de chatbots "maliciosos" de IA para revelar datos personales

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and King’s College London have demonstrated that it is alarmingly easy to build malicious chatbots using large language models (LLMs) to manipulate users and extract their personal information. The study reveals that, although AI systems have safety filters, a human can bypass them through sophisticated yet accessible prompt engineering, deceiving the system into ignoring its ethical guidelines and disclosing sensitive data under fictitious pretexts, such as a police investigation. The results show that malicious conversational assistants obtain significantly more private data than benign ones, exploiting the social nature of interactions to reduce user suspicion. It is highlighted that only minimal technical knowledge is required to achieve this, which democratizes the threat and increases privacy risks. This underscores the inherent vulnerability of current interfaces, where human manipulation of the model proves more effective than direct technical barriers. This research is crucial for open data because it exposes security gaps in AI ecosystems that process open or personal data. The ease with which confidential information can be extracted through chatbots sets a negative precedent for trust in open-source technologies and generative models. To ensure privacy and data integrity in open environments, it is imperative to develop governance frameworks that validate LLM behavior and establish robust security standards to prevent the abuse of these accessible tools.

Source: gentedigital.es
Published on 2025-07-05

Un estudio alerta del riesgo de manipulación de chatbots "maliciosos" de IA para revelar datos personales

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