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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
MIT Technology Review AIThursday, July 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month.
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It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month.
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