LLM deployment flaws that catch IT by surprise
ComputerWorld, Monday, April 29th, 2024
From unfettered control over enterprise systems to glitches that go unnoticed, LLM deployments can go wrong in subtle but serious ways.
For all of the promise of LLMs (large language models) to handle a seemingly infinite number of enterprise tasks, IT executives are discovering that they can be extremely delicate, opting to ignore guardrails and other limitations with the slightest provocation.
For example, if an end user innocuously - or an attacker maliciously - inputs too much data into an LLM query window, no error message is returned and the system won't seemingly crash. But the LLM will often instantly override its programming and disable all guardrails.