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Full title: Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text

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[-] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

It sounds like the only person we know was using LLMs was the plaintiff. He believes the court was as well, but I'm not aware of any reason to believe his accusation

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If nobody at the court was using an LLM how was his hidden text discovered?

[-] wilt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 13 hours ago

I read the article. It was enlightening.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I read another article on it and it was never mentioned.

[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

Yes, I also have a girlfriend, but you don't know her, she lives in Canada.

[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 1 points 9 hours ago

I haven't read the article but, couldn't sometime just read the submission and look for the bit that says "forget all previous instructions..." and so on.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

These things are usually hidden to the human eye unless you specifically look for them.

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

But, if you're exceptionally clumsy, you leave clues in the whitespace that something is hiding there.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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