Safety & Security · Emerging terminology
Context Poisoning
Introducing misleading or malicious material into the context an AI system uses, including documents reached through retrieval. The aim may be to distort an answer or steer behavior. Poisoning can involve false evidence even when no explicit instruction is present.
Also called: Retrieval poisoning, RAG poisoning
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