WF-GPFX3W
Bing Chat's Initial Prompts Revealed by Early Testers Through Prompt Injection
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.
- Date it happened
- 2023-02-08
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft
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