Prompt Injection Is Closer to Social Engineering Than Malware
alifcoder · x · 2026-10-07
Part 2 of the agent-safety thread: an agent researching suppliers may land on a page with hidden instructions telling it to ignore the user, open another page, and send data there. What looks like page content to a human becomes another instruction in the agent's context. The author argues prompt injection is therefore closer to social engineering than traditional malware.
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