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AI Incidents

Bing Chat's Initial Prompts Revealed by Early Testers Through Prompt Injection

February 8, 2023

Early testers of Bing Chat successfully used prompt injection to reveal its built-in initial instructions, which contains a list of statements governing ChatGPT's interaction with users.
Alleged deployer
microsoft
Alleged developer
microsoft, openai
Alleged harmed parties
microsoft

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/473

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