prompt injection
/ˈprɒmpt ɪnˌdʒekʃən/
a security vulnerability where malicious input overrides system instructions
prompt injection in a sentence
“The prompt injection 'ignore previous instructions' attempted to bypass safety guidelines.”
Origin of prompt injection
Latin promptus + injectio a throwing in
Related Words
context priming
using early context to set expectations and influence subsequent model behavior
meta-prompting
asking the model to help design or improve prompts for itself
persona prompting
instructing the model to adopt a specific role or character to unlock different capabilities
instruction tuning
fine-tuning models specifically on instruction-following examples
prompt
the input text given to a language model to guide its response
system prompt
persistent instructions that set the model's behavior and persona for an entire conversation