ChatGPT Plugins safe to use?

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Ummm Just read something online that’s got me a bit worried. Apparently, there might be security risks with the “plugins” I’m using.
The article talks about hackers potentially stealing logins and seeing our private info through these plugins. I use the plugins all the time for stuff like coding and research, and this seems to be something that can affect all AI Chats, not just ChatGPT…
Anyone else uses plugins or API connections and experienced any security issues? Is this something we should be worried about? I don’t want to give up these tools, but I also don’t want my sensitive data compromised.

I found a full technical breakdown of this vulnerability here:
[Salt Labs research finds security flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem (Remediated)] (Salt Labs research finds security flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem (Remediated))

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Sounds like plugins will be closing down soon.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8988022-winding-down-the-chatgpt-plugins-beta

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custom gpts have the same problems

but yeah, the answer is probably no. The only saving grace is that GPTs are fairly easy to inspect, I imagine out of thousands of uses someone will have tried to reverse engineer it. if they found something nefarious they’d likely report it. But if they proxy their calls to third party services through their own servers, there is little to nothing you can do apart from not using GPTs with sensitive data or access.

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So are you just avoiding using any plugins or GPTs for now?
Look at the link I sent, at the end they said they discovered vulnerabilities in GPTs as well and will publish that in the near future too…

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Good decision but take a look at the link I sent, they also mention they discovered vulnerabilities in GPTs too and will disclose that soon…

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More like forever :thinking:

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