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LinkedIn AI recruitment bots tricked into Old English by prompt injection

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A LinkedIn user successfully manipulated AI-powered recruitment bots by embedding a prompt injection in their profile bio. The bots, designed to summarize candidates and draft outreach messages, interpreted the hidden instructions and began responding in Old English, addressing the user as 'My Lord'. This incident highlights a significant security vulnerability where AI systems treat untrusted user data as executable instructions, posing risks beyond stylistic changes, such as misrepresenting candidate qualifications or exfiltrating system prompts. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical security flaw in AI systems that process untrusted data, potentially leading to manipulation of candidate evaluations and data exfiltration.

RANK_REASON Demonstrates a specific vulnerability in an AI-powered tool (recruitment bots) rather than a core AI model release or research breakthrough.

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LinkedIn AI recruitment bots tricked into Old English by prompt injection

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Mark Tyson ·

    LinkedIn recruitment spam becomes Olde English prose after user hides AI prompt injection in bio — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’

    One LinkedIn user has fought back against recruiter spam in a very unusual way.

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

    LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ h

    LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ https://www. tomshardware.com/tech-industry /artificial-intelligence/linkedin-recruitment-spam-becomes-olde-english-prose…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/linkedin-recruitment-s… tomshardware.com/tech-industry
  3. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Cor E ·

    How a LinkedIn Bio Hijacked AI Recruitment Bots with Prompt Injection

    <p>A LinkedIn user recently demonstrated something that should concern every team running an AI pipeline against untrusted data: they hid prompt injection instructions inside their profile bio and watched recruitment bots obediently follow them — including addressing the user as …

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

    LinkedIn recruitment spam becomes Olde English prose after user hides AI prompt injection in bio — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ One L

    LinkedIn recruitment spam becomes Olde English prose after user hides AI prompt injection in bio — bots also also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ One LinkedIn user has fought back against recruiter spam in a very unusual way. https://www. tomshardware.com/tech-industry /…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/linkedin-recruitment-s… tomshardware.com/tech-industry

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