Prompting Skills playbook/Module 7 · Safety & privacy

Day 66 / 100 · Safety & privacy · Prompt injection awareness

When content gives orders.

Text inside emails, web pages and documents can carry hidden instructions. AI tools that read that content can end up following them.

Where it hides

Hidden In Plain Sight

Web pages, emails, PDFs, white-on-white text, file metadata, image descriptions.

What it can do

Why It Matters

Twist a summary, push a malicious link, leak data or trigger actions in AI agents.

How to reduce it

Limit The Damage

Treat content as data, limit what the AI can access and do, and approve actions yourself.

Sources: 0DIN ↗ · OWASP GenAI Security Project ↗

Anything it reads can talk back. Limit what it can do.