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Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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‘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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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can somebody ELI5 what the ASCII smuggling hack consists of?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

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