prompt injection
Text on a page written to instruct a model reading it rather than the person.
What prompt injection does not show
Relevant to publishers because instructions can arrive on a domain the owner did not write, through user content or a compromised dependency.
Where prompt injection comes up on this site
- Our llms.txt failed our own prompt-injection checkThat makes them the obvious place to put an instruction a model might follow, which is what indirect prompt injection means: text on a site that a model reads as a command.
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Questions about prompt injection
What is prompt injection?
Text on a page written to instruct a model reading it rather than the person.
What does prompt injection not show or guarantee?
Text on a page written to instruct a model reading it rather than the person. Relevant to publishers because instructions can arrive on a domain the owner did not write, through user content or a compromised dependency.
Which area of the glossary does prompt injection belong to?
Delivery and rendering: What arrives on the wire, and what only exists after something else runs.
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