Control Your AI with Guardrails

Guardrails for AI, or Guardrails for LLMs refers to our product, Aporia Guardrails, the system that sits between the LLM and the user. By detecting and mitigating hallucinations and unintended behavior in real time, AI engineers can ensure their RAG apps are secure and reliable.

GenAI is a beneficial technology for both the company and the consumers involved. It allows businesses to create their own AI apps that are designed to boost productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and is adaptable for any business across any industry.

However GenAI can make mistakes, and is difficult to safeguard against RAG hallucinations, profanity and unrelated topics. Having Guardrails that intercept, mitigate, and block these unwanted behaviors is essential to ensuring your GenAI remind beneficial, safe and reliable.

Guardrails in AI have a simple purpose: to maintain your AI app’s reliability. When system prompts are created for an LLM or RAG application, it’s likely that the app will misbehave accidentally due to the lack of guardrails. This is because AI makes mistakes, and is easily manipulated, especially by hackers and cunning users.

Take Air Canada’s chatbot as an example, which promised a man a non-existent discount. Air Canada was forced to pay the price at the end. AI Guardrails help protect both the business and the user simultaneously while enhancing the app’s reliability and accuracy.

AI guardrails can be categorized into three main types:
Ethical guardrails – ensure the LLM responses are aligned with human values and societal norms. Bias and discrimination based on gender, race, or age are some things ethical guardrails check against.
Legal guardrails – ensure the app complies with laws and regulations. Handling personal data and protecting individuals’ rights also fall under these guardrails.
Technical guardrails – protect the app against attempts of prompt injections often carried out by hackers or users trying to reveal sensitive information. These guardrails also safeguard the app against hallucinations.

Any GenAI app used internally or externally by a business should include AI guardrails to intercept and mitigate unintended behavior and hallucinations in real time. Aporia Guardrails provides engineers with the opportunity to choose out-of-the-box or custom policies with customizable actions: log, block, override, or rephrase.

It only takes a few minutes to integrate Aporia Guardrails into your app. Simply call our REST API or change your base URL to an OpenAI-compatible proxy. Aporia Guardrails works with any LLM-based app that works both internally and externally of the business.

Unlike DIY guardrail systems, Aporia allows users to choose out-of-the-box Guardrail policies that integrate with their AI app in just minutes. Users can also create customized guardrails for their prompts and responses that suit their specific app. Aporia Guardrails are designed to suit any business, so we will work with you to ensure your policies are fully aligned, and that your app is behaving as it should.