The Devious Genius of “Prompt Injection Attacks” on Today’s Big Language Models

An old trick, revamped for the new age of AI

Clive Thompson
6 min readMay 12

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For years, one of the easiest ways to break into a website was to use an “SQL injection” attack.

And now a new version of this old malicious behavior is coming back …

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net