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		jannes on Sept 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3 Do you consider social engineering to be an attack?

navjack27 on Sept 13, 2022 [–]

If the social engineering actually results in the person being engineered giving away actual secrets then yes. If the person being engineered simply lies to you with something that appears to be the secrets then no.

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