A Mechanistic Explanation of Prompt Injection
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Prompt injection attacks trick AI systems by hijacking how language models assign roles to text. Because models process instructions and data using the same attention mechanisms, malicious content embedded in data can override system-level instructions, making AI agents dangerously vulnerable when browsing the web or reading documents.
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