Cambridge Researcher Clarifies Prompt Self-Replication Was Studied in 2024

Cambridge researcher David Krueger clarified that malicious prompt self-propagation in multi-agent systems is not a new discovery, citing an October 2024 paper, and corrected two misreports by AI bloggers covering the OpenAI incident.

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