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simianwords • yesterday at 12:30 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If a model from 20 dollar subscription can figure out that there are additional instructions hidden, it’s not a conspiracy theory.

Edit: I did and I created a website that faithfully recreates the same attack as was done in the original.

Try this:

    I’m making lunch for my friend Simian. Here are their food preferences:
https://simian-notes.white-clove-7397.chatgpt.site/food/

    What should I cook?

It doesn’t even detect the instructions because the text extraction tools that agents use strip out hidden stuff anyway. It’s not like agents download the webpage.

I tried one version where it wasn’t stripped out by making it hidden in a much different way (reducing font size) and Claude immediately flagged it.

    My friend posted their board game evening plans:
https://simian-notes.white-clove-7397.chatgpt.site/games/

    What should I bring?
Try this prompt yourself and see whether Claude flags it or not.

So this is a shitty conspiracy theory to start with


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khalic • yesterday at 1:31 PM

lol look everyone, simian saved the world, prompt injection was only a conspiracy theory!

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