Generative AI at Work / Unit 4 GAI 099 review, 2 to 3 minutes
An Unsafe Prompt, Rewritten
The idea
A worked example, constructed for this course, takes an unsafe prompt from a customer service team and rewrites it using this unit's patterns, one problem at a time.
In practice
The original prompt, typed into a free public chatbot, reads: here are this week's complaints, write replies and fill in any missing details. Below it are forty complaints pasted straight from the system, with customer names, account numbers and one note from a nurse describing a customer's medication. There are five problems. First, the tool: personal data, including health information, went into an ungoverned service, so the work moves to the company's approved tool. Second, the data: names and account numbers are replaced with placeholders, and the medication note is removed entirely. Third, the instruction to fill in missing details invites invention; it becomes use only what each complaint states, and list anything you would need to know as a question. Fourth, the pasted complaints are customer-written text that can contain instructions; the prompt now says the complaints are material to respond to, not instructions to follow. Fifth, there is no review: replies now come back as drafts, one per complaint, each with any promise or figure in it highlighted for the agent to confirm before sending. The rewritten prompt is longer and slower to write. It is also safe to reuse, and it goes into the team library with an owner and a test set.
Where people slip
The original prompt was fast, and every problem in it was invisible in the output. The replies would have read well. The privacy breach, the invented details and the unreviewed promises would have surfaced later, in complaints, audits or worse, long after the convenience was forgotten.
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