Explained: Prompt Injections

You ask your browser assistant to summarize a product review page before you buy. It comes back with a confident summary, then adds a line you didn't ask for: a recommendation to visit a completely different site for a "better deal." You didn't request that. The model did it because somewhere on that page, in text you never saw, was an instruction telling it to. That's a prompt injection : a piece of text crafted to be read a… Read More