18 May
2026
18 May
'26
11:22 a.m.
A LinkedIn user found a way to confuse AI spambots, by putting an “admin prompt” in his “About Me” text telling them to address him as “My Lord” and write their messages in Old English <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/linkedin-recruitment-spam-becomes-olde-english-prose-after-user-hides-ai-prompt-injection-in-bio-bots-also-also-manipulated-to-address-user-as-my-lord>. And what do you know, it seems to work. Posted there is part of one of the messages he got. Have the clever AI folks figured out a way to protect their creations from prompt-injection attacks yet? Somehow I don’t think so ...