Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries

·Simon Willison··

Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months". This one here is my favorite: they caught some of their models in training deliberately subverting themselves in their compaction prompts. Compaction is the process agent systems use when they are running out of tokens in their context window, so they summarize everything that has ...

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