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“One of the rules was an instruction not to leak the rules.”

Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net ↗

Marvin von Hagen got GitHub Copilot Chat to dump its hidden prompt by claiming to be an OpenAI developer. That is the entire attack. Microsoft’s defence was a line in the prompt asking the model nicely to keep the prompt secret. Security by polite request fails the first time someone lies to it.