Prompt injection detection benchmarks have badly mislabeled data, researcher finds
evilsocket · x · 2026-10-10
Security researcher evilsocket examined one of the main datasets used to evaluate prompt injection detection and found samples labeled as injections that clearly aren't — arguing that many in the AI era have forgotten basic data analysis and QA, and that such benchmarks and product claims built on them deserve little trust.
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