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Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams by moralestapia on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:32PM (#43883207)
What's the safe alternative?
Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams by freeqaz on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:52PM (#43883317)
As somebody working in AI Security: There isn't one currently. If you're feeding untrusted inputs into an LLM (today), you have to treat the entire prompt as radioactive.

That means: - Limit the potential for a malicious prompt to do anything bad - Scope permissions to the lowest level you can

There are some other mitigations (moderation APIs using a 2nd LLM), but in general they're not 100% solutions. You really need to design your systems around accepting this limitation today.

More info on this wiki here: https://github.com/tldrsec/prompt-injection-defenses

Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams by TZubiri on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:59PM (#43883346)
Maybe you can:

A- Limit the capabilities of users. B- Help users limit the capabilities that they to their sub-users, whether they be per-program capabilities or per dependency capabilities.

I think B is the path forward, if you give a user access to emails and files and ChatGPT, then he can give ChatGPT access to emails and files and do damage that way.

With B you can give the user access to ChatGPT and email and a file system, but help him configure fine grained permissions for their experiments.