Azure AI Content Safety: Anti-Malware for AI Apps

• Generative AI applications can be a legal or PR crisis waiting to happen unless organizations take steps to protect them from malicious actors.
• Azure AI Content Safety provides developers with tools to help detect and block some common attack vectors.
• Given the risks, some form of content safety system will be the AI equivalent of antimalware software: a standard part of any deployment.

Generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) have tremendous potential but, as early adopters have discovered, they also pose significant reputational and legal risks, particularly if bad actors are able to manipulate them into generating inappropriate, harmful, or otherwise unintended content.

Azure AI Content Safety is a set of services that aim to help developers protect their generative AI applications from misuse. These services are available as APIs for developers and also as filters available from within Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft’s Web-based tool for professional developers to create, test, and deploy applications powered by LLM.