Microsoft Finds “Summarize with AI” Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/microsoft-finds-summarize-with-ai.html

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instantregret@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 194d

It's an indirect prompt injection, no need to make up a new word for it.

Australis13@fedia.io · 13 pts · 194d (2 replies)

Seriously? This is a painfully obvious prompt injection vulnerability (reminds me of SQL injection, actually). If you're offering a "summarise with AI" functionality, then you should be sanitising the inputs properly. It should be a simple call to the API to tell it to summarise a dataset or particular webpage -- not provide a query string.

Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 194d

But hat would require them to put in actual effort instead of just pushing out a minimum viable product and calling it the next evolutionary stage of computing.

redsand@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 194d

Best we can offer is another AI doing sanitation