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What Does 'Context Poisoning' Mean?

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[ AI ][ CONTEXT_MANAGEMENT ][ NOUN ]

Deliberately or accidentally feeding an AI agent corrupted, misleading, or malicious context that degrades its later outputs, distinct from prompt injection by targeting the accumulated context rather than a single instruction.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"One bad document poisoned the whole context, every answer after that was subtly wrong."

LORE & ORIGIN

Borrows 'poisoning' from data-poisoning security language, applied specifically to an agent's accumulated working context rather than its training data.

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN上下文污染EQUIVALENTliterally 'context pollution' - 上下文 = native 'context', 污染 = native 'pollution/poisoning', direct calque, mirrors the well-established '数据污染' (data poisoning) pattern
日本語 ja-JPコンテキスト汚染EQUIVALENTliterally 'context pollution' - コンテキスト = borrowed 'context', 汚染 = native 'pollution'
한국어 ko-KR컨텍스트 오염EQUIVALENTliterally 'context pollution' - direct calque
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