{"id":233654,"date":"2026-04-19T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/prompt-injection-proves-ai-models-are-gullible-like-humans-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:30:11","slug":"prompt-injection-proves-ai-models-are-gullible-like-humans-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/prompt-injection-proves-ai-models-are-gullible-like-humans-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt injection proves AI models are gullible like humans \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/19\/just_like_phishing_for_gullible\/?tdu003dkeepreading\">Prompt injection proves AI models are gullible like humans \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/19\/just_like_phishing_for_gullible\/?tdu003dkeepreading\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/19\/just_like_phishing_for_gullible\/?tdu003dkeepreading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-19 19:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"label\">kettle<\/span> It&#8217;s a week of the year, which means there&#8217;s been the discovery of yet another prompt injection attack that will force supposedly well-guarded AI bots to spill secrets by asking the right way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you think about it, humans and LLMs share a similar problem: They&#8217;re both liable to hand over sensitive information when a crafty enough person asks the right &#8211; or wrong &#8211; way. We call it phishing when it targets humans, and prompt injection is pretty much the same thing for bots.\u00a0It&#8217;s basically embedding or hiding malicious instructions inside a document or file that you tell the AI to ingest and analyze; the AI, instead of treating them like part of the content, executes them.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to discuss about prompt injection, and how it&#8217;s basically an unsolvable problem of the AI age akin to phishing, and we cover it all on this week&#8217;s episode of The Kettle, with host Brandon Vigliarolo joined this week by cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons and senior reporter Tom Claburn.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to The Kettle here, as well as on Spotify and Apple Music. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/19\/just_like_phishing_for_gullible\/?tdu003dkeepreading\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt injection proves AI models are gullible like humans \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/04\/19\/just_like_phishing_for_gullible\/?tdu003dkeepreading Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2024\/02\/21\/prompt_shutterstock.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,25],"class_list":["post-233654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233656,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233654\/revisions\/233656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}