ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

The Register
May 29, 2026, 8:00 am125 ptsTrending
EXCLUSIVE ChatGPT can’t tell its own generated content from attacker-controlled Markdown pulled from external sources, according to a researcher who found the prompt injection technique and reported it to OpenAI. This means that if a user asks the chatbot to summarize a web page that contains hidden…

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