Google says it won't fix this potentially concerning Gemini security issue

Gemini phone.

• Google won’t fix Gemini’s ASCII smuggling flaw, calling it a user-side social engineering issue
• Attackers hide malicious prompts in invisible email text that Gemini reads during summarization
• Gemini’s integration with Workspace apps makes it vulnerable to hidden prompt-triggered phishing attacks

A recently-detected “ASCII smuggling attack” will not be getting a fix in Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence tool, the company has said - saying it is not a security issue but rather a social engineering tactic and as such, the responsibility falls on the end user.