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16th September 2022 - Link Blog

Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack. I’m quoted in this Ars Technica article about prompt injection and the Remoteli.io Twitter bot.

Posted 16th September 2022 at 6:33 pm

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