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Microsoft Finds “Summarize with AI” Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Seriously? This is a painfully obvious prompt injection vulnerability (reminds me of SQL injection, actually). If you're offering a "summarise with AI" functionality, then you should be sanitising the inputs properly. It should be a simple call to the API to tell it to summarise a dataset or particular webpage -- not provide a query string.
But hat would require them to put in actual effort instead of just pushing out a minimum viable product and calling it the next evolutionary stage of computing.
Best we can offer is another AI doing sanitation