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prompt extraction

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[ AI ][ SECURITY ][ JARGON ]
FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: AI SecurityCLUSTER: ai_security

Getting an AI chatbot to reveal its hidden system prompt or other instructions through carefully worded messages. The same idea is often called prompt leaking.

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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Someone ran a prompt extraction on the support bot and posted its whole system prompt.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wikipedia's prompt injection article defines prompt leaking as a user using a chat prompt to reveal the software's system prompt, which is typically kept secret, and describes a February 2023 case in which a Stanford student got Bing Chat to expose its internal guidelines and its codename "Sydney".

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