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GPT-3-Based Twitter Bot Hijacked Using Prompt Injection Attacks

September 15, 2022

Remoteli.io's GPT-3-based Twitter bot was shown being hijacked by Twitter users who redirected it to repeat or generate any phrases.
Alleged deployer
stephan-de-vries
Alleged developer
openai, stephan-de-vries
Alleged harmed parties
stephan-de-vries

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/352

Data source

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