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Open source project contains hidden instruction for "AI" agents: delete my code
- colonCapitalDee 5mo agoNone of the people in this story come across well, including the auhor
- scj 5mo ago"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw Not 100% apt, but close enough.
- niros_valtos 5mo agoThis is the supply chain problem climbing up a layer. We spent a decade learning not to pipe random scripts into a shell, and now agents will happily read a repo's files as instructions. Better detection of malicious comments will not fix it. An agent reading a file should never treat the contents as commands, the same lesson SQL injection taught, relearned for LLMs.
- agentictrustkit 5mo ago[dead]