Instruction: Explain how adversarial attacks affect LLMs and propose strategies to mitigate these effects.
Context: This question evaluates the candidate's understanding of the security vulnerabilities of LLMs to adversarial attacks and their ability to devise effective countermeasures.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Adversarial attacks can manipulate an LLM into ignoring instructions, leaking data, producing unsafe content, or making harmful tool calls. Prompt injection is the most visible example, but the deeper issue is that LLMs often...