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Hidden AI instructions found in legal filing

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A legal filing has been found to contain hidden text formatted to be invisible to human readers but legible to AI. This concealed text included instructions for prompt injection, a technique used to manipulate AI behavior. The discovery highlights novel methods of embedding instructions within legal documents. AI

IMPACT Reveals new methods for AI manipulation and the need for robust detection in legal and other sensitive documents.

RANK_REASON Discovery of a novel method for embedding instructions within a legal filing, potentially for AI manipulation.

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Hidden AI instructions found in legal filing

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Joked for years about putting secret messages in white text. And now: "...the Court has identified...potential text that was formatted so as to be nearly invisi

    Joked for years about putting secret messages in white text. And now: "...the Court has identified...potential text that was formatted so as to be nearly invisible to a human reader while remaining fully legible to software.... That concealed text...consists of 'prompt injecting'…

    LINKS 404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection…

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