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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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