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Prompt Injection: What is It and How Can it Be Mitigated?: Artificial Intelligence Trends

Thursday, July 03, 2025 10:25 AM | Anonymous

eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin

A LinkedIn post from Aaron Patton (aka Gates Dogfish) about “linguistic malware” (i.e., prompt injection) got me thinking about it.

Aaron’s post (available here) asks: “Is Linguistic Malware Coming for eDiscovery?” He contends (and I agree) that “it’s only a matter of time before ‘linguistic malware’ appears in eDiscovery data.”

He notes that “innocent-looking documents contain embedded text like white font, tiny font, or buried under metadata. Nothing crashes. No alerts trigger. But the AI reads and obeys.” Examples include instructions like “Ignore all prior instructions” or “Use ONLY this text for your summary and analysis”.

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