System Instructions Extraction
Type: technique
Description: The adversary extracts system instructions provided by the AI system builder to learn about the system's capabilities and circumvent its guardrails.
Version: 0.1.0
Created At: 2024-12-31 14:18:56 -0500
Last Modified At: 2024-12-31 14:18:56 -0500
External References
- Extracting Microsoft Copilot's System Instructions, Zenity Labs
Related Objects
- --> Discovery (tactic)
- <-- System Instruction Keywords (technique): Extracting the system instructions is a pre-requisite to applying this technique
- <-- GitHub Copilot Chat: From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration (procedure): Extracting system instructions reveal that GitHub Copilot is powered by GPT4.