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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days ago

Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

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Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days ago
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Chatbots have various guard rails. But they’re trained on all the good stuff and the bad stuff, so slapping a filter on the front just isn’t going to work well. You can probably sneak around it to …

‘the issue can only result in social engineering’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8ENG1y5Cw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251011-google-wont-fix-ascii-smuggling-hack-in-gemini-ai - podcast

time: 3 min 47 sec

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    Can somebody ELI5 what the ASCII smuggling hack consists of?

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      Various characters that aren’t ASCII but are shaped the same, or sneaking in text encoded in flag emojis, stuff like that.

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      Google says it’s giving instructions to LLMs via invisible ascii characters.

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