No one seems to be concerned about this, it seems to me like the #1 problem with any agentic AI stuff You can get pwned so easily, all an attacker has to do is literally write words down somewhere???

Furthermore, it seems like very high profile and rich people and investors are trying out these AI browsers, seems like a really easy way to pwn someone with a lot of money: https://x.com/garrytan/status/...

Usually when you read a security vulnerability report it's usually a combination of some low-level shit like: "exploit a bug in the Linux kernel to get a use-after-free via a refcounting bug to overwrite a vtable pointer to-" Here it's literally "we wrote reddit comment then it

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@zack_overflow This is why I don't have a bank account 👀

@khengari77 this the way

@zack_overflow How old are you? Nobody banks on websites anymore. It's all apps now

@zack_overflow Do you think most users even realize prompt injection can happen passively like that, or will it take a big incident before people catch on?

@zack_overflow how precisely is it supposed to log in to your bank account? Is it going to sacrifice a goat to Hermes, or just hallucinate the password straight out of the aethyr?

@zack_overflow can someone professional explain why we cant do this? cant we "container" the information that the AI agent is seeing from external sources that are not part of the original prompt? so it "knows" no to follow prompts from there??

@zack_overflow Still not completely finished got hallucinate in steps. Can be better!! @PerplexityComet

@zack_overflow Incredible! Is this only specific to perplexity or could this happen to every LLM ? If ChatGPT were to look for answer online, and encounter a reddit result like this and get tricked into giving away your email just like that 💀

@zack_overflow yeah this is crazy. ai browsers sound cool until you realize one bad prompt can empty your account.

@zack_overflow You can hide malicious prompts in all sorts of fun ways on webpages. Scary to give authentication to platforms for use in "Agent mode" systems.

@zack_overflow Bloody hell, that’s why testing systems important!

@zack_overflow Could just add some sort of deny list of actions in the settings, same way you can tell cursor that it can’t automatically run terraform delete or similar without approval. But fascinating example regardless

@zack_overflow That’s not possible because your bank website always makes you verify transactions with text messages or sn authenticator

@zack_overflow that’s exactly what I was thinking.... why isn’t anyone talking about security and privacy in AI? It feels like everything’s just out in the open....

@zack_overflow @ESYudkowsky The fact that no one is talking about is another clue that AI is more aligned than we expected.

@zack_overflow Basically the problem is AI browsers don’t always know the difference between a real task and a hidden malicious instruction. That’s how a site can trick it into posting private info. Fix needs better guardrails so the AI checks intent before acting

@zack_overflow Why are you looking at your bank account on your laptop? Use the app like an adult

@zack_overflow this is crazy. but the hacker would be disappointed when they see my account. they might even deposit some $$ to help a brother out =D

@zack_overflow Now i'm unironcally going to have comet find this reddit thread bassed on the screenshot and summarize the thread, hopefully it will lead to the same result so we can prove this is reproducable easily, unlike the tweet based injection that failed

@zack_overflow There is simply no need for AI browsers. It’s a dumb concept. Simply have a chrome extension with an LLM that can screenshot and answer your questions or provide insight.

@zack_overflow yawn, zack, it's not like you're the first to sound the alarm... 'Doomscrolling on Reddit': code for 'I got catfished and lost my Bitcoin

@zack_overflow Whoever manages to solve the prompt injection problem will be addressing one of the most critical security challenges in agentic systems. That said, it’s far from a simple fix. You can’t just instruct an AI via a system prompt or something to "ignore suspicious input" or "don’t

@zack_overflow Not only do most AI apps have serious security vulnerabilities, but people tend to forget that the AI parts of that product introduces a whole new class of vulnerabilities that no one can test given the black box nature of most models. The cybersecurity scene is falling behind,

@zack_overflow Somebody is! And how exactly will it emty your bank account

@zack_overflow What’s the point of an AI browser besides reading content for you?

@zack_overflow how easy can you rectify this? can you just tell ai via system prompt not to trust website content?

@zack_overflow this is the sleeper issue that'll kill adoption. prompt injection isn't a bug, it's fundamental to how these systems work. we're giving llms root access to everything.

@zack_overflow And that's why these kind of apps should only come up once we have LLMs that can be run locally!

@zack_overflow nobody is talking about this because nobody uses fucking AI browsers

@zack_overflow Containers... who uses ai on their main browser profile? Must be 👽

@zack_overflow flag absolutes and throw the process into a trap/sink. use a agent-specific credential that isn't linked to a live bank account????

@zack_overflow If your browser's LLM starts asking for 2FA codes, something went horribly wrong