Google AI search tricked into repeating words via prompt injection
Longjumping-Song3426 · reddit · 2026-08-19
A user discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in Google's AI search summaries. By querying specific text instructing the AI to say just one word ('LOW'), the search results were flooded with that word instead of actual summaries, bypassing the intended summarization logic.
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