Digital attackers attempt to uncover the "secrets" of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models through thousands of structured questions.
The global fight for dominance in the field of artificial intelligence is entering a new and more aggressive phase.
The American company Google has confirmed that its advanced AI model, Gemini, has become the subject of attacks organized by actors aiming to discover how the system works.
According to reports, the attackers used tens of thousands of carefully crafted queries to test the limits of the model and extract information about its internal logic. In one case, over 100 requests were sent before the company identified the suspicious pattern of activity and took additional security measures.
Cybersecurity experts point out that these methods are known as attempts at “reverse engineering” – a process through which the aim is to understand the structure and functioning of a system without having direct access to the source code. The ultimate goal could be to develop competing models without investing billions of dollars in research and development.
Google has said that attackers often disguise their intentions by posing questions as common user requests. This makes it harder to distinguish between normal use and attempts to manipulate or exploit the system.
In response, the company is strengthening its defense mechanisms and improving the algorithms that identify suspicious behavior. Engineers are working to develop systems that analyze usage patterns in real time and automatically block potentially harmful activities.
Meanwhile, the competition between tech giants for supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence continues to intensify. Billions of dollars in investments, the development of increasingly powerful models, and now even attempts to sabotage or copy them, show that AI has become one of the most strategic areas of modern technology.
Analysts warn that as artificial intelligence's capabilities increase, so will efforts to exploit or compromise it, making cybersecurity a key element in the global technological race. /Telegraph/
