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Recognizing Prompt Injection

Explore the concept of prompt injection, where user-supplied text alters AI model responses unexpectedly. Understand why prompts cannot inherently defend against this issue and discover how to set safe boundaries by validating AI output before acting on it. This lesson equips you to design secure AI interactions in frontend applications by separating content display from critical actions.

Every prompt in this module has mixed two things: instructions we wrote, and text someone else supplied. The model reads both as one piece of text. That is the whole of the problem this lesson covers.

We'll cover the following:

  • Where the problem comes from

  • What can go wrong

  • Why the prompt cannot defend itself

  • Where the real ...