Indirect prompt injection: how an AI agent gets hijacked by the data it reads
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An agent that reads a web page, an issue tracker, an inbox or a pull-request description is reading text that somebody else wrote. Indirect prompt injection is what happens when that text contains instructions addressed to the model rather than to the reader, and the model carries them out using th…
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- 2026-08-25 08:50 · DEV Community — AI
Indirect prompt injection: how an AI agent gets hijacked by the data it reads