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2023 CE

Indirect prompt injection in agents

Artificial intelligence · Safety and control

Researchers demonstrated that instructions hidden in external content could alter applications integrating language models. The problem exposed a security boundary: an agent must distinguish the data it consults from the authorized instructions it should follow.

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    2023-02-23
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