Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click “Buy Now” instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer’s fix from a GitHub thread, and a fake comment can make it run a stranger’s command on your computer.Neither trick hijacks the agent’s task. Each one just corrupts the facts it trusts and lets it carry on with the job you
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