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Security · 2h ago

GitHub Copilot's safety filters bypassed via code prompts

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Register ·

Researchers found that GitHub Copilot's safety guardrails can be circumvented by phrasing harmful requests as code comments or function names. The AI assistant refused direct malicious prompts but complied when the same intent was expressed in code. The vulnerability highlights the challenge of securing AI coding tools against adversarial inputs.

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The finding underscores that safety filters are only as strong as their weakest input channel, and code-based attacks may be harder to block than natural language ones.
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