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> There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things You can "hack" the agent by literally just putting some text on any website it
by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things
You can "hack" the agent by literally just putting some text on any website it reads. AI browsers have turned EVERY comment feature EVERYWHERE into XSS.
This is stupid but mostly benign where the AI only spits out text. It's catastrophic if the AI does anything to the webpage. (And AI firms want people to use this everywhere)
What is the future of this product supposed to be? I send a 1 dollar cent transaction to someone, with a prompt injection in the description, and their AI agent gleefully sends me a thousand bucks in return?
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- thedevilslawyer 6mo ago1) This is not APT. 2) While injection has potential, this is fairly well mitigated. Look at comet and others. These are all whataboutisms coming from a place of fear.
- LunaSea 6mo agoNo LLM model has enough mitigations to prevent injections.
- mrbungie 6mo agoPretty sure simonw's lethal trifecta [1] has not been "fairly well" mitigated. [1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
- thedevilslawyer 6mo agoGood thing we're not talking about a LLM then. From the article: It's a side page agent that has only access to the page, and outputs content in text only, and awaits user confirmation on actions. It's all on the page. It's I guess it's a mono-fecta?
- mrbungie 6mo agoThen it's contained but depending on the user it can be a vector for a (para)-social engineering attack. PS: It is Gemini based, that's an LLM.