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https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/ https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/ > This isn’t just an interesting academic trick
by simonw 10mo ago
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/ https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/
> This isn’t just an interesting academic trick: it’s a form of security exploit. I propose that the obvious name for this should be prompt injection.
I've written about it 142 times since then: https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/
I'm credited for coining the term on Wikipedia and in several academic papers.
I don't claim to have discovered the vulnerability - I credited that to Riley Goodside, but we later learned it was independently discovered and first reported to OpenAI by Jonathan Cefalu of Preamble, see https://www.preamble.com/prompt-injection-a-critical-vulnerability-in-the-gpt-3-transformer-and-how-we-can-begin-to-solve-it https://www.preamble.com/prompt-injection-a-critical-vulnera...