OVERCLOCK.news
ai

Brazilian lawyers busted for attempting to manipulate court's AI with prompt injection hidden in filing

The lawyers of a plaintiff in a labor case attempted to use prompt injection to influence the court's AI but were caught.

BlueskyXRedditMail
Revised 2 changes recorded since we first saw this
Hnrss.Org 3 versions
  1. Current Summary changed

    1 new sentence, beginning: “Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL:…”

    Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

    Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 Points: 255 # Comments: 137

  2. Version 2 Summary changed

    1 new sentence, beginning: “Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL:…”

    Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

    Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 Points: 203 # Comments: 98

  3. As first published

    Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

    Article URL: https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322173 Points: 152 # Comments: 61

Read the current version at Hnrss.Org →

Versions are compared on the headline and summary the publisher puts in their feed. An edit to the body of an article that leaves both untouched will not appear here.

Why am I seeing this Ranked on recency

It is here mostly because it is new. Freshness is the largest single contributor to its score, which means nothing about the story except that it is recent.

Nothing much is corroborating this yet. On a quiet day in ai that is enough to reach the top of the section — recency, not significance, is doing the work here.

Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.

Blended score 0.418 — every figure below is computed, none of it is editorial.
FactorWeightScore ContributionWhere it came from
Corroboration 0.35 0.39 +0.135 32% 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true.
Source trust 0.25 0.44 +0.110 26% Tom's Hardware is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged.
Pickup rate 0.20 0.00 +0.000 0% One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate.
Freshnessleads 0.20 0.86 +0.173 41% Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent.

Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2 — Hacker News appears on this story and counts for nothing. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.

Read the full article at Tomshardware →

What happened

The lawyers of a plaintiff in a labor case attempted to use prompt injection to influence the court's AI but were caught. They won the case anyway, as the defendant did not respond, making the move totally unnecessary.

1independent orgs
42story score
0velocity
44source trust
7passes seen

How this story arrived

Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.

  1. 01 Hnrss first seen Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
  2. 02 Tomshardware +6.0h Brazilian lawyers busted for attempting to manipulate court's AI with prompt injection hidde

Overclock clusters coverage from independent sources and grades it automatically. The figures above are computed, not editorial. This page summarises and links to reporting by the outlets named — follow the links for the original work.