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Gary McGraw

As usual, @dangoodin has written an excellent security explainer article. This one is about prompt injection...but not the usual trial and error whack-a-mole prompt manipulation by pizza guy...instead, automated manipulation by search in gradient space.

This technique is new enough that we're discussing the original paper only today at BIML. It makes the whole boring front door malicious input thing much more interesting.

Have a read at the edge of

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

A pair of hands drawing each other in the style of M.C. Escher while floating in a void of nonsensical characters
Ars Technica · Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… GeminiBy Dan Goodin

BTW, the first version of this kind of attack is described in this paper

arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15043

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