Prompt injection

Also called: prompt injections, prompt injection attack, indirect prompt injection, injection attack

A security weakness in AI products. Text that a model reads changes its behavior in ways the builder did not intend. The text can come from the user or hide in outside content such as a web page or a file.

For example: An AI assistant summarizes a web page. Hidden text on the page tells it to send the user's saved notes to a stranger. Without defenses, the assistant may follow that text.

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