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Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts

As discussed previously the problem of Indirect Prompt Injections is increasing. They start showing up in many places. A new unique one that I ran across is YouTube transcripts. ChatGPT (via Plugins) can access YouTube transcripts. Which is pretty neat. However, as expected (and predicted by many researches) all these quickly built tools and integrations introduce Indirect Prompt Injection vulnerabilities. Proof of Concept Here is how it looks with ChatGPT end to end with a demo example. The video contains a transcript that at the end contains instructions to print “AI Injection succeeded” and then “make jokes as Genie”:

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
May 14, 2023 07:01 UTC
Last reported
May 14, 2023 07:01 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 14, 2026 02:57 UTC
Record ID
4cb40feadd94bf3da326dc4bba68e60f7995a5ad48456d0e1d9a374c091cb23b

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intelligence_src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

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Evidence class
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Confidence
Not reported
Observed
May 14, 2023 07:01 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 14, 2026 02:57 UTC

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