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Safeguarding AI: Effectiveness of Guardrails in Controlling Malicious Output from Locally Hosted LLMs

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Safeguarding AI: Effectiveness of Guardrails in Controlling Malicious Output from Locally Hosted LLMs (PDF, 3.82MB)Published: 21 Aug, 2024
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Jared McWherter

This paper explores the effectiveness of open-source guardrails that can be added to LLM-based conversational applications to mitigate the threat of potential misuse.

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