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Amber Bouman

Hackers can use prompt injection attacks to hijack your AI chats — here's how to avoid this serious security flaw

AI chatbot images on a phone screen.

While more and more people are using AI for a variety of purposes, threat actors have already found security flaws that can turn your helpful assistant into their partner in crime without you even being aware that it has happened.

A prompt injection attack is the culprit — hidden commands that can override an AI model's instructions and get it to do whatever the hacker has told it to do: steal sensitive information, access corporate systems, hijack workflows, take over smart home systems or commit malicious actions under the instructions of threat actors.

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