The author concludes that while it's possible to explore and interact with the system in various ways, there were no significant vulnerabilities found. The author suggests that the ability to execute arbitrary code is not a problem as it is within a sandboxed Linux environment provided by OpenAI for use with ChatGPT. The author also mentions a previous article on LessWrong about "Jailbreaking GPT-4's code interpreter" and confirms that a previously reported bug about shared /mnt/data between multiple chats has been fixed.
Key takeaways:
- The author explores the capabilities of ChatGPT, particularly its ability to execute Python code and interact with a Unix environment.
- ChatGPT operates in a sandboxed Linux environment, with user "sandbox", Debian 12 bookworm, 2 CPUs, x86_64, 1GB RAM, and 8 exabytes of disk space. It's hosted on Azure and likely under Kubernetes.
- The author found no external network access, with the external ChatGPT-running system able to connect into the uvicorn server, but the Kubernetes firewall blocking everything else.
- The author concludes that while it's possible to modify the implementation of user_machine and potentially exploit a vulnerability in the client program, there were no significant vulnerabilities found in the system.